You know the GCP dot? Measuring "consciousness' effect on random number generators on a global scale"? I wonder if what they're measuring is actually the effects of big ass distributed exploit networks (hardware level) used for cyberwarfare. Any time the NSA or other wants to say, commit a mass DDOS (like was done for the wikileaks deadmans switch), or other cyber attack, they flip a switch and millions of backdoored devices switch to a low-entropy mode in their random number generators, effectively making it trivial, with a certain method only known to them, to break https or other protocols while the system is active. Clearly speculation of course. But if I were running the NSA or u.s. cybercommand, why go through the bother of designing carefully crafted elliptic curve algorithms that are breakable as a one-off, when I could do that to the entire fucking industry? It would be the difference between having a single nuclear weapon and an **arsenal** of cyber 'nuclear weapons'. Also explains the distributed mass cyberwarfare. Why run a big ass expensive network thats vulnerable to being hacked or traced back to you when you can simply co-opt a significant chunk of internet infrastructure and connected devices to do your dirtywork instead?