[Discuss] Kicking with no proof

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 5/23/07, Tom <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
>
> On 05/22/2007 05:39 PM, Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
> > Or, let's say you send out the battle plan to everyone *except* the
> noble that
> > you suspect. If you guessed wrong, you just alerted the true spy that
> you're on
> > to him.
> >
> > But there's absolutely no way to definitively prove that the person was
> a spy,
> > unless you happen to catch his controller and torture *them*, and manage
> to
> > catch some inciminating messages that way.
> >
>
> Some knowledge of binary search helps a lot. You can identify a spy in a
> very low number of steps if you are willing to go the extra mile.
> However, it requires that _you_ have a spy on the other side to be most
> effective.
>
>
> > The way things are now, a spy doesn't have to be good or smart. All he
> has to
> > do is follow orders and have a smart controller and he is 100%
> undetectable.
> >
>
> Not 100%.
>
> But hey, look at real-world history. A lot of spies were undetected for
> years, sometimes decades.



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