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"Concepts of religion may now be goals of science and engineering."
- Bart Kosko
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| Kuang Grade Mark Eleven Penetration Program | ||
| Chinese virus software for breaking the ICE. |
How can you get past the barriers that computers put up against intrusion. You need some really good virus software.
| Maelcum produced a white lump of foam slightly smaller than Case's
head, fished a pearl-handled switchblade on a green nylon lanyard out of
the hip pocket of his tattered shorts and carefully slit the plastic. He
extracted a rectangular object and passed it to Case. `Thas part some
gun, mon?'
`No,' Case said, turning it over, `but it's a weapon. It's virus.' `Not on thisboy tug, mon,' Maelcum said firmly, reaching for the steel cassette. `A program. Virus program. Can't get into you, can't even get into your software. I've got to interface it through the deck, before it can work on anything...'
`What is this thing?' he asked the Hosaka. `Parcel for me.'
He slotted the Chinese virus, paused, then drove it home.
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| From Neuromancer,
by William Gibson. Published by Phantasia Press in 1984 Additional resources -
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Gibson does a great job of giving us a mental picture for a tech concept; here's the virus a bit later:
Something dark was forming at the core of the Chinese program. The
density of information overwhelmed the fabric of the matrix, triggering
hypnagogic images. Faint kaleidoscopic angles centered in to a
silver-black focal point. Case watched childhood symbols of evil and bad
luck tumble out along translucent planes: swastikas, skulls and
crossbones, dice flashing snake eyes. If he looked directly at that null
point, no outline would form. It took a dozen quick, peripheral takes
before he had it, a shark thing, gleaming like obsidian, the black
mirrors of its flanks reflecting faint distant lights that bore no
relationship to the matrix around it.
`That's the sting,' the construct said. `When Kuang's good and
bellytight with the Tessier-Ashpool core, we're ridin'~ that through.'
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