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jeanpierre2··on Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode
The plan for West Germany in case of a sudden Soviet invasion was to destroy bridges and railways, render tunnels unusable by dropping huge concrete blocks on the entrances or – my favourite – filling them with foam so Diesel motors would suffocate while driving through; and destroying many roads.

All just to buy a little time to be able to mount an actual defence against the invasion in France.

jeanpierre2··on Symantec Is Now NortonLifeLock
Is this just me as a non-native speaker, or does "Norton LifeLock" sound... kind of sinister? Like something out of a dystopian novel?

I'm actually not quite sure what the name is supposed to mean. Are they locking my life to protect me from evil hackers?