Comment Get the data back? (Score 1) 557
"the more urgent task is to [...] recover the data"
Huh? Does this mean that UT no longer has the data? That the FBI will have to go around to thousands of FTP servers and gather together a few bits here, a few bits there?
This theft metaphor just doesn't work with "stolen secrets", and never has. Once someone has discovered your secret, and told someone else, you can't get it back. It's not the data that was removed, but only the secrecy.
Huh? Does this mean that UT no longer has the data? That the FBI will have to go around to thousands of FTP servers and gather together a few bits here, a few bits there?
This theft metaphor just doesn't work with "stolen secrets", and never has. Once someone has discovered your secret, and told someone else, you can't get it back. It's not the data that was removed, but only the secrecy.
