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Re: Ransomware

From	Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Ransomware
Date	2016-02-22 20:54 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<naghet$1r5$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <dj0qc1FsktlU1@mid.individual.net> <6xHyy.19055$Nf2.1353@fx14.iad> <dj10mkFuav1U1@mid.individual.net> <naftt5$4a9$1@dont-email.me> <dj1emmF3i27U1@mid.individual.net>

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On 22-Feb-16 15:59, Osmium wrote:
> The computer program is only used as a mechanism to capture
> information and distribute the numbers, the actual source of the
> numbers is "The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for
> many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number". IOW a
> transducer of some sort hooked up as an input channel to a computer.
> It sounds to me like a resistor producing white noise, or snow as
> they called it on analog TVs. That's an unimpeachable source and I
> like it

That assumes the source of that noise is random.  Failing (so far) to
prove that a source is not random is not proof that it is random.

S

-- 
Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Thread

Re: Ransomware "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-20 13:46 -0600
  Re: Ransomware scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-02-22 15:14 +0000
    Re: Ransomware "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-22 10:12 -0600
      Re: Ransomware "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-23 04:13 +1100
      Re: Ransomware scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-02-22 17:26 +0000
        Re: Ransomware "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-22 12:00 -0600
          Re: Ransomware sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-02-22 13:19 -0500
          Re: Ransomware scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-02-22 18:28 +0000
            Re: Ransomware "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-22 13:26 -0600
            Re: Ransomware Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-02-24 09:24 -0500
          Re: Ransomware Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-22 15:19 -0600
            Re: Ransomware Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-22 15:57 -0600
              Re: Ransomware Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-22 16:27 -0600
                Re: Ransomware Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-22 17:57 -0600
            Re: Ransomware "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-22 15:59 -0600
              Re: Ransomware Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-22 20:54 -0600
                Re: Ransomware Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-22 21:27 -0600
                Re: Ransomware Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-02-25 08:33 -0500
            Re: Ransomware Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-02-24 09:23 -0500
              Re: Ransomware "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-24 08:40 -0600

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