Personal Computers in Traveller

[DFW]

BP, an interesting point. It changes ONLY if viewed by a sentient being...

 

[BP]

BP, an interesting point. It changes ONLY if viewed by a sentient being...

A sentience detector?

Brings up one of the weak points in all likelihood - in practice, it also changes from inherent and background environmental 'noise' the system would have to ignore at some RW point. The hacker would want to bury their attack in the 'noise'...

Of course there are easy counters to that - embedded patterns within the noise to catch the interloper's interference, and pre-arranged timing disparities (to catch the delays from a MiM attack when they are otherwise below processing thresholds)... which, of course, can be countered in turn...

 

[dreamingbadger]

It changes ONLY if viewed by a sentient being...

that would be a difficult judgement to make, heck, i know people who would fail the Turing test ...

 

[rust]

It changes ONLY if viewed by a sentient being...

The jury is still very much out on this, I think currently a majority doubts
that the observer would have to be sentient:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics)

 

[DFW]

It changes ONLY if viewed by a sentient being...

The jury is still very much out on this, I think currently a majority doubts
that the observer would have to be sentient:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics)

I've used the above mentioned system. That IS how it works, apparently.