She wanted to try turning off the security program to see if that eliminated the problem. She found that turning off the security required a special password. Now what was that password, anyhow? Well, she keeps a list of passwords in the safe. Now what was the combination for the safe?
We are a sort of life forms that need food, shelter and clothing, plus water, air, and amusements but even when those are supplied, we age. Enough aging and we die. That's not a very secure situation. Take care of yourself and you won't die for a while - probably. Well, unless you get hit by a bus. Or, a bull. Or, a bullet. Or, the wrong bacterium.
Seems like the best we can do is take some basic precautions but not overdo it. I read about WWII German forces being slowed down by their need to destroy extensive files that had been created for security and back-up purposes. A famous seeker of security is Hamlet:
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be] by William Shakespeare ...
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/hamlet-act-iii-scene-i-be-or-not-be
What is Hamlet saying in his To Be or Not To Be soliloquy?
Hamlet is basically contemplating suicide on and off throughout his soliloquies. In this soliloquy, he compares death to a little sleep, which he thinks wouldn't be so bad. ... Of course, we'd escape a lot by being dead, like being spurned in love. This is that whole "slings and arrows" bit is all about.
Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"There is only one really serious philosophical problem," Camus says, "and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that" (MS, 3). One might object that suicide is neither a "problem" nor a "question," but an act.Oct 27, 2011
Most people would rather not commit suicide just to reach a secure state. It is better to seek a balance between secure, secure, locked-up, barred, guarded security and careless hanging the safe combination and the security password on the office wall.
