When I was an engineering undergrad in the early 1980s, #chaos theory and #fractal geometry were coming into vogue, thanks to #Mandelbrot's excellent book "The Fractal Geometry of Nature". What struck me about, then and now, about chaos processes is their description of how a simple, predictable, ordered process, under certain conditions, suddenly explodes into a wild, chaotic results.

Of relevance to the present quagmire of our #IT industry is the Verhulst population growth function: \(x_{t+1} = (1 + r)^t x_t\), where \(t\) is time and \(r\) is growth rate. The dynamic process emerges, when this function is iterated over time.

When \(r < 2.0\), the population dynamic eventually converges to a stable number. When \(r = 2.3\), the population oscillates between high and low numbers. When \(r ≥ 2.5\), the population dynamic transitions into a chaotic process.

I wonder if the present growth rate \(r\) of the IT industry has risen way above \(2.5\).

Soaked in its own juice
Heat up leftover #chaos
Longer troubled days

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#MicrosoftTeams #vishing attacks lead to #Chaos #ransomware attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-teams-vishing-attacks-lead-to-chaos-ransomware-attacks/

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A quotation from Wallace Stegner

Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) American novelist
Crossing to Safety, ch. 13 (1987)

More about this quote: wist.info/stegner-wallace/8452…

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- a neat hack for the properly paranoid -

Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html

#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos

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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.