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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by jfk13 on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:59PM (#24445467)
I'm pretty sure the potential recruitment pool of young Arab men is still many times greater than the pool of Irish girlfriends of Arab men.

It's about improving the odds/reducing the exposure, not achieving some theoretical absolute perfection.

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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by gowld on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:35PM (#24445888)
It's bad math. It doesn't matter if you have 1 arab man and 1 korean woman, or 1000 arab men and 1 korean woman. You only need 1.

If you calculate the probabilities correctly, you get very different results.

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