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Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Jorlem wrote:

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If I'm reading that right, the 'hack' is the bit that ensures people who know the Secret, aside from the Secret Keeper, cannot tell the Secret. Correct? So, wouldn't removing or 'patching' that make it so anyone who was told the Secret could freely retell it?.

(Also, the impression I had was that it wasn't something like a compulsion that stopped people from leaking the Secret, but that it somehow simply became flat-out impossible to do so.)

The following assumes a) Doug is right, b) the analogy to a DBMS is exact enough, and c) this gets used in the story.
The "hack" is using the Akashic Records of the people told the secret as backdoors to them. 
The Fidelius uses this backdoor to essentially "rewrite" the reality of each person so that they are incapable of revealing the secret. 

You're also assuming d) Magic works according to logical rules of effort and/or e) Wizards are logical.
The Fidelius may very well create a list of people who aren't allowed to know the secret, add pointers to everybody in the world except the Secret Keeper to it, and let the SK take people off the list.
Can't remember if the spell being difficult is canon or not.  If so, then being engineered back-asswards would explain why.

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