RE: Microsoft shutters Windows private folders

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

Now I understand why the villains never just kill the heros, they devise 
complex schemes that take a long time ... and never work.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:

> Forget the chemical recation....  I'll use an explosive, about the size of an M-80 (my poison), strapped to his 
> jugular, that is on a timer for 120 minutes or if it's removed from his neck without the key (his antidote) being 
> inserted, which I have.....   
>
>
> Michael P. Blanchard 
> Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
> Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
> EMC ² Corporation 
> 4400 Computer Dr. 
> Westboro, MA 01580 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 1:36 AM
> To: C Q
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Microsoft shutters Windows private folders
>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:58:55 EDT, C Q said:
>
> > Chemical reactions can be timed pretty well (well, at least some
> > of them).
>
> Under controlled conditions.  It's a pretty sucky time to find out he's
> on Coumadin (a particularly touchy medication that's a pain in the ass to
> get the dosage right), and the next thing you know, he bleeds out on you.
>
> If you're a chemistry buff, then you know that most reactions don't go linearly,
> they're exponential based on concentration - and 2 hours out is a *long* way
> out the tail either way, whether it's a fast reaction, or a slow one.
>
> Go ahead - see if you can make a reaction go in your basement lab, given
> the uncertainty you'll encounter in the initial conditions (for starters,
> what's the target's blood volume, to within 1% or so?) Let me know if you
> can actually get something that's *predictably* stable in lethality at the
> 2 hour mark, with less than 10 minutes error, across all the variance you
> might encounter. And oh by the way, the victim has to still be functional
> for the vast majority of the time - it doesn't help if he passes out or
> has a seizure or is too busy trying to barf up a lung to be able to tell
> you the information.
>
> It's not that easy in real life, as opposed to a James Bond movie.
>
> It's a lot easier to just have a big-ass hourglass, turn it over, and say
> "If we don't get a verified correct answer before the sand runs out, you
> get a 9mm between the eyes".  Psychologically more effective and likely
> to produce results too.
>
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