https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/15/tags/2310.rssNew Posts Tagged 'security' - Scientific SpeculationScientific Speculation - Codidact2020-03-26T22:40:20Zhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/261847How to prevent people from ever using the Founder Titan again without rendering it inoperable?Mephistopheleshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/35842020-03-26T19:25:01Z2020-03-26T22:40:20Z<p>So, If you're familiar with the anime GATE (not to be confused with Stein's Gate) or <em>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</em>, you probably know what's going on and why I have a boil...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/259010What measures to put in place to reduce airlock being used for murder?rlukshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/263142020-01-01T10:01:34Z2020-01-03T18:35:01Z<p>Consider a futuristic world where space travel and colonisation of the solar system's planets is an everyday reality. In space vessels, the airlocks are used quite often to execute people. It's ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/253352How to encrypt the activation signal for my kill-switches to make them impossible to hijackMephistopheleshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/35842019-05-30T20:08:52Z2019-06-03T13:55:51Z<p>Dragons are awesome, but they're still vulnerable thanks to their low-numbers and a certain type of people...</p>
<p>So, to prevent those from killing even a single dragon I came up with the we...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/252238What could prevent concentrated local exploration?A Lambent Eyehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78192019-04-22T10:23:50Z2019-04-23T11:11:59Z<p>In my world there is a village with a hot spring, the only one on the entire island.</p>
<p>The spring emerges from a local cave which has been filled / caved in by a past civilisation, since t...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/252014What items from the Roman-age tech-level could be used to deter all creatures from entering a small area?Systemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12019-04-14T18:54:49Z2019-04-15T17:57:35Z<p>Please assume the following:</p>
<p><strong>There is a item on the ground and I want nothing but bare earth touching it.</strong> </p>
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<li>I cannot move the item myself.</li>
<li>The item...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/251123Ancient Egypt - Primitive Blockchain TechnologyArash Howaidahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/181322019-03-15T23:55:40Z2019-03-18T16:03:41Z<h2>Premise</h2>
<p>The goal is to implement a bronze age version of blockchain in ancient Egypt to introduce a layer of security for the royal tombs. </p>
<p>Tomb raiding was rampant, and at tim...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/250275Carrington Event ShieldElectrocytehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/434852019-02-10T04:57:19Z2019-02-12T22:10:36Z<p>If a nascent colony world can be wiped out by a geomagnetic storm on a scale similar to the Carrington Event, what could the colonists build either in space or on planet to protect their electro...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/249565Locking an old spaceship from the outside?Jai1814https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/433932019-01-18T19:08:56Z2019-01-19T23:40:30Z<p>I know it may be a bit of a silly question and not really something of great importance to a story, but how would you secure a spaceship when you leave?</p>
<p>For example; <em>when the Millenn...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/248423How to use a certain technology to communicate with colonies but keep the how-to a secret?Aventinushttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/385022018-12-13T12:47:11Z2018-12-19T02:34:45Z<p>I'm building a world for a role-playing game campaign using the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226996/Stars-Without-Number-Revised-Edition" rel="noreferrer">Stars Without Number</...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/240883Smartphone camera resolution can image a human retina: can we save retina biometrics?JBHhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/29562018-04-10T23:03:37Z2018-06-08T06:57:53Z<p><strong><em>RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ</strong> "“ April 2, 2019 "“ Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced that the new, award-winning Galaxy S11 and Galaxy S11+, which have been recognized by sma...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/217505Would the need for control limit a superintelligent rational agent's expansion in the universe?Elias Haslehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/385562016-02-23T08:45:10Z2018-05-10T13:07:47Z<p>My thoughts go like this:</p>
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<li><p>I postulate a superintelligent rational agent, that is given, or assumes, control over its mother civilization. I call this agent "the Ruler".</p></li>...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/231386Reliability of Planetary QuarantineStephenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/382952017-05-22T04:28:15Z2017-05-23T03:23:02Z<p><strong>Setting</strong>: In the future universe, with technologies based on real science that we know that theoretically can be implemented (though not feasible with today's technologies) and s...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222860Could a civilization without access to computers have cryptography?Sigma Orihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/26562016-09-05T19:01:29Z2017-04-22T17:43:30Z<ul>
<li>There's a person who has enough working knowledge of our current real-world methods of cryptography (e.g. knows how a few modern algorithms work and could implement one or two from scratch...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/220018If I have multiple identical AI Oracles that can answer only Yes or No, can I play them against each other to detect a treacherous turn?Eckhard Fuhrmannhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/390182016-06-19T18:53:43Z2016-06-21T14:28:40Z<p>On an air-gapped supercomputer in my basement, there's a self-improving prediction machine "” a so called Oracle "” that knows everything that is on the Internet but cannot send any data outside...