WOOT! People not minding about the listening in are the best reason for hanging around with other mutants! Well, one of the best reasons anyway. :-)
Ha, I think Max would be kind of 'oh my god I can't talk to them what would I SAY' regarding any NG member, really. At least at first.
Of your CS people, I kind of want him to meet Chloe at some point. Max is a deeply nice and sweet person, but he is a little bit off normal morality when you really think about it. Privacy is something he had to learn, he doesn't actually see why it's so bad to listen to someone think or root around, he just realizes that it's rude, if that makes sense.