🚀 go-pugleaf

> >> [it is "virtually impossible" to break a certain system]

> > Ok if I believe the assertion that it is impossible for an outsider
> > to break the key (absolute security? right...), why, then I'll just
> > bribe an insider!  Startling new idea isn't it :-)

> [What if] there is no such person.  (They killed him as soon as
> he typed in the numbers....:-)

  It then might be possible to use the third part of system security --
denial of service (theft of information and creation of false information
are the other two).  In a statement to the owners of a system, we would
say "Alright! Give us all your encrypted information or da computer gets it!".
Such statements carry more weight if you have arranged to aim a rather
nasty weapon in the general direction of the computer beforehand...

  This approach may not bring the expected result if you try it against
people who have even nastier weapons aimed at you.

Bob Devine