Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Thinking about government-mandated backdoors into an encryption technology. The keys and techniques to exploit the backdoor comprise a secret kept by the authorities and the companies involved, and that secret is essentially maintained by a conspiracy of all those individuals. One might ask what is the probability of that secret leaking out of control?

Thinking about  government-mandated backdoors into an encryption technology.  The keys and techniques to exploit the backdoor comprise a secret kept by the authorities and the companies involved, and that secret is essentially maintained by a conspiracy of all those individuals.  One might ask what is the probability of that secret leaking out of control?

The recent paper by David Robert Grimes, "On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs" (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905) provides valuable insight.  (This paper is also discussed by Yonatan Zunger  at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905 )  The upshot is "Conspiracies are made of people, and people are kind of incompetent."

The model Grimes develops doesn't quite fit this case (this is a conspiracy almost all elements of which are public, and the secret great intrinsic value to a number of people), and is highly dependent on a number of parameters.  It seems to me it could be adapted to  deal with our special case very easily. 
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905

Monday, February 15, 2016

Always good to see things from the other guys perspective...


Always good to see things from the other guys perspective...

Originally shared by ****

Haha ..

Another striking campaign photo of HRC

Another striking campaign photo of HRC 

Originally shared by Diane Raucher (broderick)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1686546668284912&set=a.1412054012400847.1073741832.100007887846307&type=3&theater

Originally shared by Jamez Frondeskias


Originally shared by Jamez Frondeskias

You'll be fine ... children aren't a threat to you. Who would recruit children to fight in a war anyway. Right?

Ever heard of child soldiers?

4.6 GPA

4.6 GPA

Originally shared by NBC Bay Area

Noeli Zarate answered every question correctly on her Advanced Placement Spanish exam, becoming one of only 55 students in the world to do so, district officials said. http://nbcbay.com/juIaiPO

"I was surprised by the results considering the complexity of the exam," Zarate admitted.
http://nbcbay.com/juIaiPO