Microsoft and IBM want to talk about the business of insurance

Where there's a boatload of money to be had, people can come up with the most ingenious strategies and solutions to pry that money loose, no matter how much security stands between those people and their goal.

Take the late Auric Goldfinger, villain of the classic James Bond film that bears his last name. Here was a man who had designs on knocking over Fort Knox, the gold repository of the United States, which today holds more than $66 billion in gold bars and coins (by my unofficial reckoning using a $450 per ounce gold market price and a reported 147.3 million ounces held).

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