But in the course of first copying the contents of the hard disk-a seemingly sensible precaution-they triggered the hidden program that irrevocably destroyed them.
David Williams, the chief marketing officer, quickly determined that the "member" who had triggered the alert actually was an automated program scraping the forum.
You won't have to give up half your hard drive space to do it: The motion-activated program captures images only when it's triggered and provides a time-stamped video of events as they occur without recording the inactivity between events.
Until now, the surge in Japanese shares had been driven mainly by a weaker yen triggered by optimism that the central bank's massive bond-buying program and Mr. Abe's mix of stimulus and growth strategies would steer the economy out of deflation.
As such its (somewhat wordy) Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) program has been set up to create rugged technology, that can degrade into its surroundings when triggered.