This is why Rooks tosses the CD into the sea

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1. Its a much more cinematic and romantic gesture to dramatically fling the CD from an elegant sailboat into a beatiful ocean than, say, stuffing it into a shredder."

Who would need this explanation? Isn't all this pretty friggin' OBVIOUS? Anyone who wouldn't understand this, can't understand anything else about this movie's storyline, either.

Also, this is not an 'in-movie' explanation - it's the hollyweird, this world-explanation. So it can't be a character motive. It only explains why the moviemakers made the character do it - financial, claptrap-type reason.

When you use a word like 'more', it's usually a good idea to have something to compare with. So, 'more than what?', I may ask.

More than something that would have actually made some sense?

"2. If you found a CD on a beach, would you pick it up, take it home, and stick it in your computer?"

Yes.

Who wouldn't? I would be curious as to what's in it. Wouldn't you? If not, why not? What's the harm, as long as you are not letting it autoplay or execute a file? (And even if you are worried about that, you can do it in a controlled environment, virtual environment, isolated, old laptop that doesn't matter even if it explodes, etc.)

"3. The CD was probably encrypted. The CD contained a program that was capable of (a) finding and deleting data from Sunways' computer, and (b) writing Sunways' data back to the CD itself. So one could imagine the CD also being able to encrypt itself, as well. Plus, the movie is called "Cypher"""

You can't encrypt a 'CD'. You can only encrypt data.

CD also can't do things. It is storage only. Computers are the ones that do things, like 'encrypting'. CD can't 'encrypt itself' (whatever this means) any more than your coffee cup can invent a foreign language.

Even if the data was encrypted, no encryption is 100% safe, especially if you need access to it. Megacorporations like in the movie, could surely crack the encryption, given enough time and reasons.

But it doesn't matter if it was encrypted or not - someone typed that file, someone scanned / took / downloaded + attached the photo into the file, and someone ordered Rita to be murdered, and some assassins know about this (otherwise, why would the file even exist, and why would they ISOLATE a file that's needed to be spread to assassins?)

The whole 'throw-the-CD-overboard' didn't mean anything, movie-wise. It was just a cinematic, romance-injected, typical, idiotic and calculated movie gimmick that's meant to make women in the audience 'aah' and 'ooh', and feel soooo 'romantic' about it.

It doesn't make any kind of in-movie-Universe-sense.

What's your point anyway? That there was a reason to include that gimmick, so it's acceptable and all good? I don't agree, if this is your point.

Throwing the disc into the ocean is one of the stupidest things he could've done. The more intelligent solutions:

- don't even bother copying the file onto a a disc, but just delete it and overwrite the deleted space

- if you must do this very stupid thing, then at least crush the disc to little bits and pieces, and chemically burn those pieces or drop them in a vat of acid or corrupt them permanently and completely in some similar way

It's just so overly-complicated thing to do to copy something to a disc that then needs to be destroyed, but not even destroying it, just letting the ocean take care of it. A diver nearby might've been able to rescue it and its contents.

Also, if it's encrypted, and you don't have to be worried about it because of the encryption, why even throw it anywhere, when you can just leave it around?

By the way, even if it's encrypted, someone could still steal the encryption key, while they're sleeping. As this movie shows, even the 'impossible feats' are possible..

So your message really makes about as much sense as this movie's stupid ending.