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by gorgoiler 686 days ago
I was in the park with some friends yesterday and we took a cooler with some ice and beers in it. Not long after we arrived a lady came over and asked if we had seen a red purse she had lost. We hadn’t, but helped look in the immediate surrounding area for a few minutes.

She asked very shyly, if it wasn’t too much trouble etc., if she could look under the cooler as well. It might sound silly but I think it was completely understandable. While unlikely, she wanted to eliminate the possibility that the purse was in our area, before moving on.

I think a lot of tamper seals are like this. If you have a leak and need to decide if it was either from an unscrupulous employee in the office or from someone else at home tampering with your laptop then being able to definitively eliminate the latter will help you focus on the other possibilities.