[KenWittlief]

there is a bit of a paradox going on here.

Anyone who is intelligent enough to hack open the PDF files, wouldnt need to. If you are that brilliant and understand technology THAT well (to be able to pull it off) then you could breeze through this whole design cycle with one side of your brain tied behind your back.

but is a mute point anyway. The encription is secure enough that you would have a better change of guessing next weeks lottery numbers.

I personally dont think this is an issue of violating the trust that FIRST has placed on anyone. If they trusted us, the files would not be encrypted. They would have posted them and told us to go ahead and download them, but not to peek until Saturday - or even better they could have given the files one of the adult mentors on each team - so I wouldnt say FIRST is 'trusting' us with anything, not really. This is like putting a milkbone on a dogs nose and telling him to wait until saturday.

Everyone wants to know whats in those files. Wondering how hard it would be to open then is not a sin. Talking about it is not a sin against FIRST - its natural human curiosity.

If anyone WAS able to open them that quickly, forget about the FIRST program - go talk to NSA or the FBI - they will make you a career offer you cant refuse :c)