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by mcbits 3382 days ago
Probably easier to find an existing employee with financial problems and offer a duffel bag of cash to plug in a USB stick for 30 seconds.
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Better still, infect his USB stick without him knowing.
This is like the opposite or corollary of the "$5 rubber hose" cryptography cracking device.
Did you mean the xkcd "crypto nerd" wrench, or is this a reference to something else?

E: ah, TIL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis