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   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   
      
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