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jacalata on Nov 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Azure Outage

If you have the only copy, you can destroy it.

rbanffy on Nov 19, 2014 [–]

They will still beat you up until you produce the data you have destroyed, which is until they get tired of beating you up. You could keep some decoy data you produce in such situations, preferably before the beating starts.

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