[ontolog-forum] Probabilistic ontology (was Re: Sabotaging a communicati

[Simon Spero <sesuncedu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since this is a forum for discussing ontology, I assume that this was an allusion to GMU work on probabilistic reasoning with ontologies, such as
pr-owl ( http://www.pr-owl.org )
And
pr-owl 2 ( http://seor.gmu.edu/~klaskey/papers/URSW2010_F7_CarvalhoEtAl.pdf )

With code at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unbbayes/

These approaches are designed to classify with partial information and active disinformation.

These can help you get a feel for what it is like to be like to be a bat whose sensor channels are being jammed (not communications channels).

Simon

[OT: Designing secure systems has always been about balancing the costs to Alice and Bob with the benefits and costs to Eve and Mallet, and the resources that they have available. Making the costs of attacking one part of the system higher may leave another part of the system the most vulnerable target.
Once the cost of breaking the crypto system goes above a certain point, rubber hoses and diplomatic pouches full of Kremlin / French gold take over. Once a system becomes too hard to use, laziness, stupidity or pure field expedience come in to full effect.
Key distribution  too hard -  one time pads get reused (Venona). Too much data classified Top Secret - too many people cleared too sloppily (Snowden).]

On Nov 16, 2014 7:02 AM, "John F Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Note the following article:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29931995
    Bats sabotage rivals' senses with sound in food race

In any system in which spamming or jamming can be profitable,
it will happen.  But trying to make a system absolutely secure
may be prohibitively expensive.

A better solution is to make it unprofitable -- i.e., make
virtue the path of least resistance.

John


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