The head of the Senate's budget committee, Pete Domenici, proposed a bill that would have made it impossible to spend the Social Security surpluses on the rest of the budget (he called this the Social Security lock-box).

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At the same time, it became clear that the lock-box was popular with voters, who decided they did not want their contributions frittered away on current spending (no one pointed out that in fact this is not what happens: the budget debate does not affect the rights of pensioners or the status of the trust fund).

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Even if you don't see that as a security risk, a system crash could lock the BlackBerry out of your in-box.

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