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Hello,
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:07:09PM +0000, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> I didn't think so Leshy, but before criticising the (so far)
> excellent novel that it cropped up in, I just wanted to check with
> some folks who I knew would have the answer to hand.
It's annoying when that sort of thing happens isn't it. :)
I'm reading a techno-thriller just now where almost everything has
so far been plausible. There was just this one part where it said
something like, "the drives have been wiped but the FBI can still
reassemble the data anyway."
Except in the real world it's not believed possible that they or
anyone else can.
http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-data/
It's little things like that which irritate but I suspect it happens
to everyone with these sorts of domain-specific nerdy knowledge.
My girlfriend's father is really into trains and many a time we've
been sitting watching Portillo's Great Train Journeys when he'd
exclaim, "that's the wrong livery!" or "that line doesn't go
through that station!" after they have cheated and used some footage
of a different train in the middle of a piece as filler. :)
How does one become a proof-reader for techno-thrillers?
Cheers,
Andy
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