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If your goal is to weaken encryption, reducing entropy could be a step along that path.



Sure, but it is amusing to imagine terrorist cells plotting to reduce entropy.

There's a SF story to be had here: the global superintelligence uses bits of litter and fallen leaves and stuff to generate unbreakable encryption; the terrorists wage a global campaign to clean up litter, prune trees, get everything neat and orderly in order to hack the system...


Lava lamp factories are subverted so that the wax mixture flows in a straight line without any turbulence whatsoever. Dice land on a 3 each time they are rolled, anywhere in the world. Casinos disintegrate swiftly accompanied by a bright flash.


Playing card companies are infiltrated and produce decks with nothing but the four of hearts. Coins are melted down and recast with both sides tails. Chaos. No, wait, order.


Agreed! Your comment did give me a chuckle.




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