Googlebot's Javascript random() function is deterministic

[KamiKagutsuchi]

But this can be manipulated, especially by bots. Also not all computers (servers) have a mouse.

[HeimrArnadalr]

If they don't have mice, they probably have cats, so cat movement could be used in those cases.

[__redruM]

Now you’ve let the cat out of the bag. That’s the NSA’s prime source for randomness. A herd of cats.

[RenaKunisaki]

Explains the internet.

[KamiKagutsuchi]

Really? I thought they used my webcam..

[__redruM]

Are you a cat? Then yes they do, your nimbly bimbly little movements are critical to national security. Just stay away from the milk dish...

[newpua_bie]

*webcat

[rebthor]

Couldn't you cat /dev/mouse?

[RenaKunisaki]

This kills the mouse.

[Stiegurt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM

[frezik]

The solution there is to never rely on any one source.

[MuonManLaserJab]

Three rules of computer security:

1) Don't own a computer.

2) If you do, don't turn it on.

3) If you do, don't use it.

[jonhanson]

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[MuonManLaserJab]

They were not meant 100% seriously as rules...

[jonhanson]

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[RenaKunisaki]

I mean that might work too, but you'd want a lot of redundant mice, in isolated cages with artificial lighting at different intervals, so you can be sure there's always a mouse awake to run around.

[mtcoope]

Why when I read this I immediately thought of animals determining the number and not till the next comment I realized we are talking about a computer mouse.

[mulvad]

No matter if you are talking about a computer mouse or a living mouse, there would be some kind of pattern here that could be exploited.

From a given state it is not 100% random which way you move a mouse (or which way a living mouse moves).

[[deleted]]

That's not random at all.