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SWBTATTReg

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6. Easy way around this...isolate the so-called critical data/sensitive data into a separate PC, and keep isolated.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Jan 23, 2026, 02:19 PM

Jan 23

Any that needs such a sensitive encoding mechanism shouldn't be allowed onto a medium that communicates w/ the open world (and what little of the 'open' world to communicate w/ should be a very, very small window.

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