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Re: Microsoft shutters Windows private folders


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:21:03 -0400

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:32:50 EDT, C Q said:
can't protect CEO's data either... All I have to do is inject him with
a poison that activates within 2 hours if an antidote is not given...

Such as?  (Hint - how do you calibrate it so it's lethal in 2 hours,
and not 1 1/2, causing him to keel over before he gives up the secret? Or
after 3 hours, by which point he's been rescued?

And why should he believe you will actually provide the antidote, when you're
probably better off with him dead?  Remember, he's not somebody's 5 year old
kid that will prove a lousy witness in court - he's a C*O, and most of them
don't get there by being stupid.  So you got somebody smart and pissed at you.
Why should you let them go?

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