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by saagarjha 2389 days ago
> "uniformly random" implies "no information"

You can have something that when observed appears to be uniformly random but can be transformed into something that is not. Consider a Hadamard transform applied to |+>.

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Or decryption?
Possibly - though decryption relies on other information held elsewhere (the keys), so I imagine within physics it then turns into a hidden variable problem.
I feel that the operative difference is between “being” and “seeming” uniformly random.