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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by Roritharr on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:58PM (#25587289)
Imagine if the President told the NSA to remove every copy of a file. the pathway you've described would be potentially viable to reach a large majority of files in storage someplace.

Terrifying thought.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by protoman3000 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:04PM (#25587363)
Have always this piece handy

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by cesarb on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:54PM (#25587814)
> remove every copy of a file

I vaguely recall that this (or something similar) was one of the worries about Palladium/NGSCB back in the day.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by rightbyte on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:00PM (#25587318)
Child's play compared to add data to a specific file ...
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