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 Message 13434 
 Sean Dennis to August Abolins 
 MS 2021 wrap up with 64 patches 
 08 Mar 22 21:07:25 
 
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Hello August,

07 Mar 22 21:39, you wrote to me:

 AA> I have to wonder what other keys (hold down key x and tap key y
 AA> n times) ..they might have wasted time implementing.

You know that Control-Alt-Delete was never meant to be part of the original 
IBM PC?  It "escaped" the lab.

I read an article interviewing the engineer that developed that at IBM.  He 
said that it was deliberately awkward so it couldn't be performed 
accidentally.

 AA> EFS intriqued me. I always thought it would be handy to have at
 AA> least one live-encryted folder or something.  But it doesn't
 AA> sound prudent to play with it now.

I'd use VeraCrypt and do the whole hard drive if you go encryption.  My 
opinion, of course, but in my IT career, I found that to be a good solution 
(there's a Linux filesystem that can do that also).

-- Sean

... You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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