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Ah. Makes sense, thank you. I'm sorry if I set up a strawman, and it's worrisome to think I'm doing this without realizing it. In order to not do that anymor
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Ah. Makes sense, thank you. I'm sorry if I set up a strawman, and it's worrisome to think I'm doing this without realizing it.
In order to not do that anymore, I'll need to figure out how my argument was a strawman. It seems like the only reason people are interested in this is because they're believing it provides some sort of security; else it wouldn't be interesting by definition. So it seemed reasonable in turn to point out that this method isn't reliable.
I suppose that's literally the definition of a strawman (they never claimed it was absolutely reliable) but I'm trying to understand why it was bad to infer people would see this as a protection mechanism rather than a detection mechanism. I'll be careful about this sort of thing in the future though.