Could a truly random number be generated using pings to pseudo-randomly selected IP addresses?

Question

The question posed came about during a 2nd Year Comp Science lecture while discussing the impossibility of generating numbers in a deterministic computational device.

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Answer 1

The best source of randomness on commodity hardware I've seen, was a guy who removed a filter or something from his webcam, put opaque glue on the lens, and was then able to easily detect individual white pixels from cosmic rays striking the CCD. These are as close to perfectly random as possible, and are protected from external snooping by quantum effects.