Sarah calls in from Thailand to her New York
office. "Stephen, I'm on line and ready to download the files
that are needed for the Bangkok meeting today. Where should I
look for the recon file?" Stephen: "Go to agreed site
14, look in a subdirectory that I am making just now called Baker719.
I'm uploading your file under the name sar93ah ... Okay, it's
in place." Sarah: "Downloading... Got it; you
can delete the recon file now. I'm starting to recover the files
... Okay, I see two PowerPoint files, and one document. Is that
the new draft for the agreement?"
What has happened here? Before Sarah left
New York, a short list of sites was set up and placed on her computer,
and she ran a program and clicked a couple of buttons on her laptop
to send a computer identifier "message" to her assistant.
The reconstitution file sent by Stephen was on the Internet in
a totally anonymous place for only 20 seconds (vastly safer than
using email). The reconstitution file was made up in a way that
it worked on Sarah's laptop and on no other computer in the world.
The major files from which the presentation and agreement documents
were drawn might have been on the net for hardly 20 minutes, again
in places so anonymous that even Sarah doesn't know (or care).
The executive on the move has everything needed for the day's
work, with zero concern for the work being viewed by anyone else.
