<nettime> "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 22 Sep 2001, at 16:11, Adam Back wrote:
> There will be a never-ended stream of more refined and
> accurate models of the signal itself, and biases in the
> equipment that collects the signal.  So there will be
> always a risk that the detecter gets the edge by marginally
> more accurately modeling the bias, or finding a some new
> bias not modelled by the hider.

Since the genuine signal has many sources, with different,
changeable, and idiosyncratic biases, the hider always has an
advantage over the detector.  If they have comparable skills,
and invest comparable work, the hider will always win.


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         James A. Donald
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