The survey found that one in five Americans, and one in four Britons and Australians would stop doing business with a company if it suffered a security breach.

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He amassed controllers and treasurers from important states in the U.S. with a threat to stop doing business with Swiss banks.

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Rather than stop doing business with Chavez, as a reliable U.S. defense partner would be expected to do, EADS immediately tried to circumvent ITAR by stripping out the American-made equipment and trying to find non-U.S. replacements.

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He said that it would "be a shame if it had to stop doing its business".

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Also, there would have been huge costs to having every business to stop what it was doing and scramble to find a safe place to store its operating cash.

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