As usual, I get only some of the posts on this listserv. I did not get
the original post, only a replay that included two previous posts, none
that were original as far as I can tell.
I think the post involves trying to get secrets from organizations that
keep secrets by littering the parking lot with USB flash drives that
have a virus or rootkit installed, in the hopes that someone will pick
one of them up, put into their computer, and subsequently many secrets
flow forth.
I remember years ago when I worked for a very top-secret agency that
went to great lengths to protect secrets. Many of the secrets were not
of much use to anyone because they were classified "when in doubt" --
if in doubt, classify it so no one later could complain. I suggested
that the best way to protect these secrets was to Xerox all, stand on
the street corner, and pass the secrets out to any passersby who would
take them. There were so many that the effort to sort out which secrets
were valuable to a foreign agency and which were wastes of time would
take so long that our national secrets would be declassified by the time
that the foreign agency were to determine which were which. Needless to
say, my suggestion was not well received.
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