The permanent icon indicates that a card remains in play even if a game rule required it to be discarded or trashed. A card with the permanent icon can only leave play if an effect explicitly requires it to do so.

Clarifications:

• Leads with the permanent icon are not flipped or trashed when the last Secret or support marker was removed.
• States with the permanent icon are not discarded, no matter how many Hacking Cubes are on them.