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This special knot prevented the cable from transmitting a signal?


I'm not OP but presumably the knot made it so that the cable wasn't long enough to reach the computer.


Yep, exactly. You couldn't reach the computer unless you undid the knot.


> and hide it in a closet


it's like a seal to show that they had disobeyed.


It makes it shorter.


Obligatory reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot




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