[mdpopescu]

All blackmail involves exposing something that someone doesn't want exposed - usually because the "something" is illegal. And yet, blackmail itself is illegal.

Most countries have a culture against whistleblowers, starting from childhood ("don't be a tattletale", "don't be a rat").

[ClumsyPilot]

And that anti-whistleblower culture enables fraud like theranos to be undiscovered for years