I have nothing more to say.

Surely you're thinking of Peter Graves. Wait. He's dead too.

...she eventually got it taken off her permanent record..

Slashdot archive notwithstanding ;) .

Me too. It's good to get the ransom letter phase out of the way early ;)

It was fun on the C64 but I didn't really get into it until I got my C128 and a second floppy drive. Program in one drive, data in the other. 80-column screen! Whoo boy that was fun.

I thought it was LibreFreeon, but maybe I'm thinking of something else.

Thanks for that Urban. I think I understand Schrödinger's cat thingy now.

"...better file management programs at the time..."
including from Microsoft itself. DOSSHELL, included with DOS 4?, 5? (been too long) was a file management and task switching environment that actually was more stable than Windows at the time. YMMHV (...May Have Varied)

Heh, heh. Soon after I got out of the Army, a writer for Rolling Stone was reminiscing about his days in the Navy. They had had approximately the same mission we had, just offset a little bit geographically. I'm not sure if he got in trouble for it, but he "declassified" a LOT of information.
Let me just repeat the motto of the Army Security Agency: In God we trust, everyone else we monitor.

A good question. An analog from simpler times:
More years ago than I care to count on my fingers I was a cryptanalyst in...let's say, near, the Mideast. The traffic we were intercepting and working on was in Russian, Italian or one of several dialects of Arabic, none of which I speak, or more to the point, read. But when you are applying decryption techniques you don't necessarily have to know what exactly what the message says to make progress, just what the plaintext should LOOK like.

"...everyone (especially readers)."
There. Fixed that for you.

Yes, but unfortunately it's demonstrating Zeno's Paradox, and Captain America never connects.

I'm a Winter to Spring person also. Spring is simply more...optimistic. I prefer sunrises to sunsets for the same reason.

Touch typing can be unlearnable, too. My first job-related computer experience was on an IBM AT using an in-house COBOL program that made extensive use of the F keys, which in those days were on a pad to the left (where God intended them, per Jerry Pournelle). After some time I found that I had shifted my hands to the left and was using my right hand for the right two thirds of the keyboard and left for the rest and the F keys. Now, years after last using that program and years after the F keys migrated to the top of the keyboard, I still type with that offset.

Sorry, Dude. That was the Griffith Observatory, further down the mountains.