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There are provably uncrackable encryption techniques. So if the Umiak have cracked the Loroi communications it basically means that a spy deliberately slipped a backdoor into their encryption, in which case as Arioch says, they've already lost. Or if, in the Outsider universe, encryption were known ...

Since the historian has a physical presence quite close by, it could have directly flipped bits in the pad's memory one at a time by targeting the transistors (or 22nd century equivalent) with particles similar to cosmic rays. With sufficient targeting precision, this basically gives it open write a...

I would take this comment to mean that, compared to other fields of technology, humans are less behind in computing (compared to how behind they might be in propulsion, communications, energy storage, etc...) In 2019 (let alone 2160), it seems entirely possible that such a security flaw could have b...