Point one for me, Osborne thought as the impact of her statements rippled through the room. All of the justices on the Court knew what every major corporate player did: espionage and shadowruns conducted by one corporation against another were just another part of doing business. But the justices also knew that the cardinal rule of shadowruns and black operations was "thou shalt not get caught." Although every corporation was aware that all of them were conducting industrial espionage against each other, the only way the Corporate Court and the megacorporations could function on a day-to-day basis was to pretend that nothing illegal was going on. As long as everyone kept their illegal activities quiet, nothing was to be said of them.