But the kid’s idea still makes sense, doesn't it? she thought. Any financial transaction is just an exchange of data. But you’ve got to have a safe channel to exchange that data. That’s why the Gemeinschaft’s important. Falcon was right. The Gemeinschaft was much too important for any corp to trash it, or even threaten it. All she had to do was get the data from the encrypted file into the Gemeinschaft’s information system.