Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/18/06 11:35 AM To cc SKZB List <dragaera at dragaera.info> Subject Re: High Tech vs. the Orb (some Issola spoilage) Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >>Of course, a simple clairvoyance spell used to listen in to your enemies' >>strategy meetings makes radio encryption basically worthless, anyway. >> > >Separate issues. I'm sure the enemies' strategy meetings are >protected. I'm less confident that all of the communications officers >sending the encrypted orders by whichever means are protected. Well, that was really the point I was asking about. Is there really any way for technology protect against clairvoyance? >Some radio intelligence can be done without human intervention. >Clairvoyance might find it hard to read the minds of spy satellites, for >instance. Well, since the way I think of clairvoyance isn't just as "mind-reading" so much as "remote fact-finding", the information wouldn't really have to be in anyone's brain to find it out. >One way of using many tools could be illustrated in an example of >protecting a prize. The first thing to do is make sure all the >physical doors and locks work as designed. Then make sure the >sorcerous doors and locks work as designed. Then make sure the >watchmen work as designed. Include some cobwebs at strategic spots to >discover if someone has entered the prize location. If you can add >psionic protections (maybe dread), add them. If you can add witchcraft, >add it. But can a purely technological civilization block psionics? Or sorcery? If not, then information gathered in this manner is *not* safe from protection. Say, for example, that Morrolan simply used his secret window to observe the enemy meetings. How would a purely science-based technology be able to stop him? Majikjon