While in Tokyo in July 2018, we met with senior executives at Hitachi, which wanted to be the first large Japanese signatory. When we arrived at their headquarters to seal their approval, they were quick to say, “We were attacked by WannaCry. We thought about staying silent, but we realized that we’ll never solve this problem if we don’t stand up together and do something like this.” This was in fact the whole point. I was struck by the fact that a long-standing Japanese technology company in a sector that had a reputation for being more conservative than American companies was willing to
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