Batman Plan Storage (Re: Kal-L has a point)

Parallax wrote:

Brian Doyle wrote:

Personally, I'd have hidden the plans in my sock drawer, but that's just me.

Since this is Bat-God Bruce, why didn't he just finalize the plans, read
them, memorize them, then eat them? No fuss, no muss.

Because Zatanna or J'onn J'onzz could always wipe his mind, obviously. Or at least *Batman* would consider that obvious. The sock drawer would probably have been safer, but only Alfred would consider that.

If it were *me*, I'd have:

* Set myself up as a junk e-mailer.

* Set up some nondescript free-mail account. The free-mail, of course, is my backup storage. And my *****tech.com company operates it, so it won't be inadvertently wiped out. Or so I *hope*, because I'm a billionaire playboy/vigilante who doesn't always pay attention to business details.

* Sent 21 (or thereabouts) fake plans for defeating superhumans to the whole world, via junk e-mail.

* Amusedly watched the 0.0000001% of people who have e-mail *and* pay attention to spam *and* hate superheroes *and* have the means to attack them, try out the fake plans which promptly fail spectacularly.

* Sent 20 *more* fake plans *plus* the real plan to the whole world. Trust Me! This Time! Really!

* Kept track of which plans were real. A simple note "42" in the sock drawer would do, because I have 41 other plans.

* Amusedly watched the whole world ignore the whole thing, thus letting my secret plan nestle safely in public.

* When I needed the plan, I'd call it up from my e-mail. If I can't find a copy of the real plan on my *own* mail server, *someone* in the world will have one, and my convenient worm software will find it.


If *one* villainous copy of my plan against the heroes somehow works... hey, I'm watching anyway, because I'm obsessive-compulsive about monitoring superhumans. And I'll call in my friends in the Justice League to save the victim, because I *do* trust my friends *that* much.

Of course, there's always the chance that my evil enemy Ra's al'Ghul would monitor all my outgoing e-mail and intuit that 42 is my secret number. But hey, this approach doesn't work any *worse* than how Batman actually *tried* to hide his secrets.

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(signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ --------

"Maybe [the universe] isn't a vast demonstration of eternal law and
order put up there for our edification. Maybe it's more like a room
after an all night party, strewn with random debris by Someone whose
idea of a good time we can never hope to fathom."

- Barbara Ehrenreich, from "Blocking the Gates to Heaven", 1986.

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