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[Bob Schroeck]

Jorlem wrote:

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If I'm reading that right, the 'hack' is the bit that ensures people who know the Secret, aside from the Secret Keeper, cannot tell the Secret. Correct? So, wouldn't removing or 'patching' that make it so anyone who was told the Secret could freely retell it?.

(Also, the impression I had was that it wasn't something like a compulsion that stopped people from leaking the Secret, but that it somehow simply became flat-out impossible to do so.)

The following assumes a) Doug is right, b) the analogy to a DBMS is exact enough, and c) this gets used in the story.
The "hack" is using the Akashic Records of the people told the secret as backdoors to them. 
The Fidelius uses this backdoor to essentially "rewrite" the reality of each person so that they are incapable of revealing the secret. 
Someone else could use the same hack to apply perfect mind-control, permanent transformation, or simply flip the "alive/dead" bit on the person's Record.
If Doug blocks the backdoor, can he then tell the secret?  He'd have to undo the changes to his Record first, assuming he could even figure out what they were.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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