Interviewer: Like I said, I am the mother of a 12-year-old girl, and she loves your music. Her friends love your music. You have a huge platform among a very vulnerable, impressionable set of the population. And I wonder if you think about turning your lens outward, turning it away from the diary page, and sending a broader message to girls who would be really receptive to hearing about big ideas and the big world that's outside.
Swift: Like what kind of messages?
Interviewer: Well, other characters. I don't mean to minimize the effect of a love song or a pop song. But do you ever think about writing about other experiences, things that might turn girls away from themselves in a different way?
Swift: There's nothing that's gonna turn girls away from themselves at age 12...I think the best thing I can do for them is continue to write songs that do make them think about themselves and analyze how they feel about something and then simplify how they feel. Because, at that age — really at any age, but mostly that age — what can be so overwhelming is that you're feeling so many things at the same time that it's hard to actually understand what those emotions are, so it can turn to anxiety very quickly.
I'm not a fan of Ms Swift's music (I'm not a 12-year-old girl) but I do have a healthy amount of respect for the way she conducts herself in public.
Why is the entire file necessary for the interview? A relevant excerpt, only what the applicant claims with respect to Joe, can be walked back across that air gap and sent to the regional office. The interview results then get walked past the air gap and merged/appended to the file. Naturally what really gets walked across is a large number of excerpts and data to merge/append.
Whether it's all of the file or part of the file is irrelevant, since the transmission time via USPS or UPS or FedEx is the same (per company obviously) whether you're sending a single page or a whole stack of pages. Your point about malware is well-taken though.
I continue to be impressed with the crazy things these participants can think of, and simultaneously disturbed by the fact that they actually came up with this.
Something of a tangent. I work in security and this sentence pretty much sums up my feelings about my job every day. My colleagues think I'm nuts (probably not unwarranted) but I think there's a kind of noblise oblige when you across someone with a knack for subterfuge and deception. It takes a particular kind of mindset and I very much admire that capability, if not always their intentions.
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne