Passwords to Babel
Andre Willers
22 Oct 2014
“The Fourteen Passwords of Hercules” Used to be twelve .
Hercules insisted on fourteen .
Synopsis:
The existence of passwords leads to chopping-up of meaning
until unintelligibility . Passwords decrease intelligibility .
Discussion :
1.What happened before :
2. Format-templates
Passwords being one of Format-templates functions .
You couldn’t access the information (password) or make sense
of it (template coding) unless you had
the formatting hardware .
Clay dongles .
3. These were primary targets for capture by an invading
force , or destruction (denial to enemy) by the defenders .
The data survived in baked clay-tablets with Hollerith-type
sorting holes , but without the password-masks they are difficult but not
impossible to decipher .
4.Passwords chop up information .
This immediately makes the process subject to Optimization
as set out in http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/04/infinite-probes2.html
et al .
5. This means that the Secret of anything with passwords
descends fractally
1/3 , 1/9 , 1/27 ,1/81,1/241 …etc
Or , put it another
way :
If the message is finite , then when the password is longer
than the message then you have a Tower of Babel effect .
6.Actually , even if password is only 1/3 of message length
, things will go haywire .
7. What does it mean ?
Optimal lying .
Reach 6 in small-world network , then stop .
Reach 6 in small-world network , then stop .
An interesting variation of the Halting Problem
If anybody had any idea of what they were doing , they would
give 6 free tries , then easier tries in degrees of difficulty .
Even more interesting :
Number 2’s drive the system to destruction .
8. Passwords :
If passwords proliferate past the 6 degrees , they hamper
more than protect .
9.The Reductio ad absurdum is when every phonetic letter has
a password attached .
Errk ! Been done . anti-virus software. Does more harm than
the actual virus .
Roman Catholic Church
Try to get any meaning from that in reasonably finite time .
10 .Lesson :
If your site is not too popular , no password .
If popular , add password after 300 000 hits . Or not . The whole password thing has
been overdone .
11.Why publish , then password ?
To keep the riff-raff out ?
The riff-raff is your audience .
12. The Tower of Babel .
It is tempting to think that that the whole shebang collapsed because some
clerk dropped the master format-template .
What was his name ? Did he go home to his mud-hut and say “
Today I destroyed the Babel? “
Of course not . but destroyed it was .
Babylonian Golf : a hole in one .
Dreaming on the banks of the Euphrates .
Passwords for the Waters of Babylon .
Andre
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