Invisible wrote:
> (The document I have is, however, not interesting. Even slightly. 
> Actually, it's hard to see what's so confidential about it.)

When I worked for Bellcore, I once got a document marked "CONFIDENTIAL!" 
whose only content was

   1 2 3
   4 5 6
   7 8 9
   * 0 #

The author admitted it was easier to mark everything confidential than 
to actually think about it. Apparently the lawyers hadn't told him 
that's counterproductive.  (Basically, if you mark something as 
confidential that you've already distributed widely in public, you're 
implying that the other things you've marked confidential can also be 
distributed widely in public.)

Some of the people in the meeting even framed the document with the 
proprietary notice highlighted and hung it up in their office.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Ever notice how people in a zombie movie never already know how to
  kill zombies? Ask 100 random people in America how to kill someone
  who has reanimated from the dead in a secret viral weapons lab,
  and how many do you think already know you need a head-shot?

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