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More people do X makes X more done.

why does it fail so horribly for X = protecting a secret? or does it?

(I'm not 3, by the way...)

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[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

More people or things contributing to a goal does not always add more security/efficiency/capability to achieve said goal.

A classic example is a length of chain.

The more individual links, the more weight the chain as a whole needs to be able to carry.

Each link needs to be able to support the weight of the load and the weight of the entire length of the chain.

More links also introduces more opportunities for links with failure points to be included.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's like making a chain out of padlocks, rather than locking two parallel bars together with each

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