It's no accident that one can see a similar result in timing attacks and information leakage from computer systems (e.g. Spectre and prior art), because in both cases, statistical inferences are being made from observable state.

Though this is an accessible paper that explores communication networks in detail, I'd still like to see more of these analyses conducted from a more abstract, information-theory perspective, and for these results to be broadly applied in various concrete settings.

I wonder if these sorts of fundamental underpinnings don't interface nearly as much with the daily mainstream line-of-business work that much of IT has evolved towards as they do in some other fields of applied science and design.