Now check out the political ramifications. The Star holds a contract with the Seattle metroplex government to provide police services to the city, neh? How would the government—in the person of cranky Governor Marilyn Schultz, for example—react to information that the Star has some big fragging hole in its data security or anywhere else? It’s business, omae. I don’t know what the metroplex government pays the Star each year for services provided, but if said government can shave a couple of points off the contract because it knows the Star’s hurting, it’ll sure as drek do it.