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Cryptography's risk profile is modeled against active adversaries. The way probability is being thrown around here is not like that. If you find 1 in a billion in the full training set of data that triggers this behavior, that's not the same as 1 in a billion against an active adversary. In cryptography there are vulnerabilities other than brute force.


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