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Nah because the whole idea is that the system needs to be unpredictable.
by cha5m 11y ago
Nah because the whole idea is that the system needs to be unpredictable.
- fabulist 11y agoI'll bet you an Airbus that if we managed to FOIA the source code it would use an LCG seeded from the system clock.
- cha5m 10y agoBut that isn't manipulable by someone standing in line, so it is effectively random. You can't determine exactly when the tsa person will press the button.
- fabulist 10y agoIf that was the only requirement the TSA agent could direct you however they pleased as long as you couldn't predict it. The reason to use a software solution, one imagines, is to protect from corrupt TSA agents. Corrupt TSA agents know when they turn their iPads on. Additionally, by observing several passengers being directed this way or that, you could brute force the seed and the system becomes deterministic.