<nettime> Attack on homoentropy [Re: Ippolita Collective, In the

[morlockelloi@yahoo.com]

One of the hardest things with machines is to generate sufficient 
unpredictability, to create good encryption keys or quality simulations. 
Randomness is hard to come by, for computers. Usually this is done by 
listening to the supposed outside world, network interrupts, A/D noise, 
disk seek times, keyboard and mouse input. If you are lucky  you'll get 
5-10 high entropy bits per second. And then there are successful attacks 
by flooding the machine with the input which is known to the attacker 
and not random at all. The computer then becomes predictable, the 
simulations take the same sequence, and keys can be guessed.

The intended analogy is, of course, the quality time alone, where one 
can tap into thermal noise of synapses, or that flu virus screwing with 
your immune system, to generate new snippets of thoughts that the 
outside world simply cannot predict.

Lowering the entropy of humans will have interesting consequences.

Perhaps the class division in the future will be more accurately 
described by the person's entropy than by income numbers. There will be 
gigabyters on one side and two-bitters on the other. Guess which will 
you be able to outguess.


> others. The risk is very high that massive partaking in life on social
> network won't lead to 'collective authorship', but to a buzz-swarm of
> totally superficial interactions. As Michel de Certeau has convincigly
> argued [15] it is time, and time only, which makes it possible to shape
> the everyday world 'below'. When one does not have a place of one's own,
> one acts on someone else's territory; if one is unable to put a strategy
> in practice, one can resort to tactics. In theory, personal time can
> therefore be used to build up significant relationships, also within
> heteronymous contexts as are social networks, whose rules are not


#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime>  is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org