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Agreed, but I believe the original purpose is that if he's killed the data is rendered useless. For organized crime, killing you to get micro-SD cards out of yo
by electromagnetic 14y ago
Agreed, but I believe the original purpose is that if he's killed the data is rendered useless. For organized crime, killing you to get micro-SD cards out of your gut is probably preferable to waiting for you to pass them.
I think there's only one real reference to this in the movie. It's supposed to be a super-secure way to transfer data. However, personally if the data was that important I'd just say "you come to me", because honestly if I got the cash I wouldn't care if you got shot 5 feet outside my building.
- chimeracoder 14y ago> For organized crime, killing you to get micro-SD cards out of your gut is probably preferable to waiting for you to pass them. Not if they're encrypted well enough and the data is somewhat time-sensitive! ....have we just found the solution to this XKCD? http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/
- electromagnetic 14y agoPertaining to the XKCD you just have to hope they don't get wise and go with vivisection. However, the sender would likely phone/email/deliver the password on notification of arrival, which IIRC was what was supposed to happen in Johnny Mnemonic, but the Yakuza attacked and Johnny gets a portion of the password, which incidentally ties in with frame 2 of that comic. I guess the lesson here is that a $5 wrench and a $50 mix of acid/shrooms/K applied to the right person would beat any cyrpto known to man.
- ctdonath 14y agoAka "rubber hose cryptanalysis".