---- Graydon <o...@uniserve.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:14:00PM -0400, Matthew Miller scripsit:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:07:52PM -0400, Graydon wrote:
> > > > OR, someone in the Graphic Arts department PhotoShopped a copy of the
> > > > 'real' Lens Map to screw with (and bring out) the culprit who has been
> > > > leaking stuff within Pentax's fold. That'd be my bet.
> > > While that is certainly not impossible, the marketing department is not
> > > likely to be happy at the prospect of having to explain they were only
> > > joking, no one could possibly have believed that, what do you mean you
> > > want one, about some if not all of those lenses. So I don't think it's
> > > obvious that it's fake.
> >
> > Why would it have to be Pentax's graphics department? Anyone could do it.
> >
> > *I* could do it.
>
> Sure, anyone could do it.
>
> But if the idea is to identify the leaker, you have to a)care, which
> means you work for Pentax, b)have a pretty good idea who the leaker is
> already ("it was one of these five guys" DOES NOT help in that kind of
> situation), and c)be able to do something with the information.
I would think they would narrow it to a single figure group of potentials and
then give them all subtley different versions of the map. The one that leaks
will therefore be identifiable.
>
> If all you're trying to do is get egg on Rice High's face you would
> presumably not care about any of that, but the "expose the leaker"
> scenario requires that you *do* care about that, which means you're
> working for Pentax, and hopefully have the wits God gave a gannet
> concerning the sort of information you can safely fake leaking.
>
> -- Graydon
>
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