Topic maps are well suited to message passing in a loose confederation such as hackers.
Any loose confederation of actors could openly distribute information meaningful only to a small group.
Merging would be the key to assembling the correct message. (Imagine the “measurements” of models being merged to form geographic coordinates.)
Messages could be hidden in flood of other messages, only a tiny fraction of which merge.
Suggestions on a “secret” phrase to encode using merging and topic maps? (Must be non-libelous. Just in case it is ever decrypted.)
Questions:
- Would this be more or less secure than a set of XQuery statements against an unknown (to others) public text, the results of which are ordered to display the message? Why?
- Would you transmit the merging rules or have them known in advance? Why?
- How would you transmit data and/or merging rules?
- Would you write merging rules against public data sets? Why?