Re: [93attendees] Pickpockets

Wendy Roome <wendy@wdroome.com> Tue, 21 July 2015 20:46 UTC

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Yes, and you should hike in groups in bear country. Then you don¹t have to
outrun the bear. You just have to outrun the slowest person in your group.

On 07/21/2015, 14:36, "93attendees on behalf of Paul Kyzivat"
<93attendees-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>On 7/21/15 8:28 AM, Randall Gellens wrote:
>> At 1:37 PM +0200 7/21/15, Bob Hinden wrote:
>>
>>>  On Sunday I went out of the hotel, took the subway, went to the
>>> astronomical clock, walked over the bridge, had lunch, all without
>>> having my wallet taken :-)
>>
>> Likewise, if your packets weren't compromised during Monday's sessions,
>> then everyone's packets are safe all the time.
>>
>> Consider that pickpockets have not scaled sufficiently to be able to
>> pick everyone's pocket everywhere, and hence must be somewhat selective
>> as to which times, locations, and persons are targeted. Perhaps we could
>> engineer a scaling or at least selection solution for them?
>
>There is a known solution used by prey to mitigate the effects of
>predators: herding/schooling. If all IETFers agreed to travel in a herd,
>then the fraction being pickpocketed would be reduced.
>
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