More people do X makes X more done.

why does it fail so horribly for X = protecting a secret? or does it?

(I’m not 3, by the way…)

  • netvor@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 hours ago

    oh i got it now.

    if it’s 1000 people protecting 1000 different secrets (each their own) then it does cancel out.

    note that it does get worse if the secret-guesser knows something about the statistical distribution of those secrets, and the value of each secret is kind of interchangeable to them. then things like rainbow tables exist.