New year, new PC
"I think the real issue you have is the Beancounters not getting the rolling desktop upgrades you promised them last year," I say."But forecasting is just telling the Finance people that the money should be spent by that time, meaning any residual balance could be returned to the central pool for other purposes," the Boss argues.
"The Beancounters love it," the PFY adds."No more frenzy-spending in January as people try to get ahead of mid-year cuts." "Yes, we predicted that. We warned them they'd get pressured by upper management to remove our module, and suggested we wound some crypto around it and then put the keys in a timed escrow.""A time-locked vault, if you like," I explain."The keys to unlock the module are a 2048-bit double-blind Yelzinger cipher that can only be counter-ciphered by the cipher logic block key in mid-December 2025 – after which point they can be used to unlock and remove the module.
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