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Thanks, that was an interesting read! It does of course raise interesting questions about a nefarious powerful government that wants to get rid of someone for "
by ACS_Solver 5y ago
Thanks, that was an interesting read! It does of course raise interesting questions about a nefarious powerful government that wants to get rid of someone for "endangering national security". Taking the example of sensitive GPS coordinates, I can easily come up with an a way to encode a pair of coordinates (with 10m precision) in 5 bytes, or 40 bits. And that's no longer a number where probability is so much on your side. Unscrupulous government agents have a decent chance at finding those 5 bytes in the dump of your 1-terabyte drive!
I guess the counterpoint here is, a government that wanted to put you behind bars by justifying it with 5 random bytes would have no problems with fabricating some much stronger evidence against you instead.