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From:	Sebastian Hamann <5hamann@**********.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
Subject:	CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:11:59 +0200

Message no. 1 Hello everybody,

as mentioned in the subject, I've got a disturbingly got idea on a new
plot, which however has some supremaniacal touch to it. So I was advised,
to tell everybody, so nobody can say afterwards, that he didn't knew about
it.

Everything is based on a Cyber age-Religion-FAQ, which I 'found' some 2
months ago on the net. It's a nice bed lecture, although personally I think
the guy who wrote this stuff, is in urgent need of clinical and psychiatric
help. If somebody wants to read it, to thoroughly understand, by what
meanings my main character is driven, just drop me a mail privately, he/she
will get a copy.
(Be warned, it's written in lousy English, by a German, but even I had
problems to understand some things...) OK, coming to the plot now:

There'll be a guy, he's calling himself the first Cyberyogi, founder of the
first Cybertechnology Religion, called 'Logology'. Logology puts the
logical reasoning of everything into highest Position. Also it teaches
humanity to live without any brutality against itself, and teaches that the
way which humanity follows at the moment is wrong, and will lead to utter
destruction of mankind.
This is, because as a believer of Logology, you need to attune your nerve
system to the Cosmic Consciousness. By this you'll become a kind of
terminal of the Cosmic Consciousness and can further spread Logology.
'Cyberyogis' are those Logologists, who reached the maximum level of
attunement(?).

I know this sounds like ********, but I think this is, what is created by
true life, this can't be invented. (I can show you the facts...)

What will happen?? Well this first Cyberyogi is going to further spread his
religion, but for this, some things have to be done: (please read
everything to the end, I'll explain some more things there. Also if you
say, well okay go on with it, without caring for what is going to happen
exactly you should stop reading here...)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
So this should be enough....

Ok, Cyberyogi is trying to do the following things:

- He'll try to destroy satellite-dishes and radio-installations, for they
emit High frequency waves (HF). Why ?? These destroy brain and nerve
system. This could also include Power lines, for they emit some HF as well.
(He might think so...)
- He'll try to destroy, or do damage to Computer systems (which includes
the 'trix), for they emit HF.

>>> I know this is the most awkward thing, pleas read on, I'll try to
explain further down <<<

- He'll do damage to junk food sellers (like Stuffers) and Junk food
industries. They do pollute the food with chemicals and spices and
taste-enhancers(?) (Glutamate, E6XX), which causes loss of nerve
attunement, damage to nerve system and so on...
- He'll try to fight producers and dealers of drugs, which include:
alcohol, narcotics, BTLs. Reasons, see above.
- He'll fight pharmaceutic industries, for it's medicine like
anti-depressive and nerve-medicine, for the above reasons.
- He'll fight criminals (murders first of all), for they do harm to
mankind, and spread brutality.

This should be enough, at least for no. Ok, what's this thing about
destroying the 'trix ??
Well, computers, as all electronic devices, do emit HF. For this he's going
to fight them. I know that the matrix is a huge conglomerate of computers
(say some million ??). So the whole matrix can't be destroyed. That's
right. But what about certain subsystems, like a RTG or a LTG. Perhaps, or
probably just for a short while, say some 12/24/48 hours.

Just plain think about it, for I think it's not _impossible_.

I'm not sure if he'll ever have the resources to pull such a thing, but I
want to mention it, cause it might happen.

Further I _know_ that this is going to make him the most wanted guy in
North America, or even the world, depends on where he wants his war to
rage. But this is not changeable and therefore okay. ;))

No, what I mean, it's completely okay, once his disguise is broken, he'll
be chased once and for all, but this A) should take some while and B)
should bring some fun into Stk. For I'm probably going to post some of his
Logology stuff, just to get everyone's attention.

Huh, this was a long mail, and I know it imposes some weight on the list.
Further, if I'm going to do this, I'd like to have assistance of somebody.
The best would be assistance of one of you guys, running one of the
governmental Agencys, for most likely they will hunt him for a while. (Yes
I need to know where your backdoors are ;)) )

Ok, and please let us discuss this in reasonable voice and tone and
reasons, for I'm most willingly to discuss this, and change things, that
don't find approvement.

Have a nice Sunday evening (afternoon),

Sebastian
=========
"Ich finde ihren Mangel an Glauben beklagenswert." - D. Vader

From:	Karl Low <kwil@*********.COM>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:40:21 -0600

Message no. 2 From: Sebastian Hamann <5hamann@**********.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>

>Everything is based on a Cyber age-Religion-FAQ, which I 'found' some 2
>months ago on the net. It's a nice bed lecture, although personally I think
>the guy who wrote this stuff, is in urgent need of clinical and psychiatric
>help.

<snip>

>There'll be a guy, he's calling himself the first Cyberyogi, founder of the
>first Cybertechnology Religion, called 'Logology'. Logology puts the
>logical reasoning of everything into highest Position.

<big snip>

>>>>>[Gee Yogi, how do you know all this stuff about the
matrix?]<<<<<
-- Boo Boo <11:25:22/04-05-59>

Heh.. I couldn't resist.
I like the plot idea. About shutting down RTG's LTG's though..finding where
the physical nodes are located are going to be tough. Although... anybody see
the episode of X-files written by Gibson?

For some reason a T3 Hub was located in the middle of nowhere in a little
trailer.. no protection other than the remoteness and secrecy of the
location. Any thoughts on this? For that matter.. any thoughts on where the
RTG/LTG hubs are located in physical space in general? Or are they just
virtual locations? No true physical space counterpart at all?

Personally.. I think what would be a neat climactic event would be taking down
ShadowLands for a day. Ergo, one last post by Sebastian, which gets cut off in
the middle and then nobody posts for a full 24 hours. This would of course
take massive organization over here on Plot-D.

From:	Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:08:45 -0700

Message no. 3 Since this specifically goes to some details, those wishing to be
surprised by the plot would do well to avoid reading spoilers. To the
rest of you, keep reading, since I think there are some important issues
here.

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Karl Low wrote:

> I like the plot idea. About shutting down RTG's LTG's though..finding where
> the physical nodes are located are going to be tough. Although... anybody see
> the episode of X-files written by Gibson?

Okay episode for a X-File, but I can't say I'm that big a fan of Gibson.
Seniority does not necessarily imply quality.

> For some reason a T3 Hub was located in the middle of nowhere in a little
> trailer.. no protection other than the remoteness and secrecy of the
> location.

Actually, the trailer wasn't the T3 Hub. I am not exactly sure, but I
think they were implying that the hub was actually that box on the
telephone pole (?) but that the trailer had a direct link to the T-3 hub.

> Any thoughts on this? For that matter.. any thoughts on where the
> RTG/LTG hubs are located in physical space in general? Or are they just
> virtual locations? No true physical space counterpart at all?

The hubs have to have a physical space counterpart. They are called
routers. They take data streaming from one place to another and make sure
they get to where they are going. When you send an email off to itribe,
it has to go from your computer to some central site (your ISP, usually)
then sent via a bigger bandwidth connection to the local hub, then bounces
from hub to hub until it gets to itribe. Theoretically, these hubs can be
almost anywhere, but you basically want them where you can provide the
best interconnectivity with the telecommunications backbone (i.e. more
near where you have more users, and at places where you can interface with
more telcom lines so you can route efficiently). This is about the limit
of my knowledge on the subject. Any CS majors care to jump in?

Problem with "taking down" a hub is that the matrix is probably even more
redundant than the current telecommunications network which is already
designed to almost instantaneously route around problems and failed hubs.
And even the specific hubs would probably be redundant. So to take down
the matrix connectivity of even a small area would be a very serious
project. Given today's businesses investing more in telecommunications
technology as well as lessons learned from the infamous "Crash." I would
think that the main hub routers would be very well defended physically as
well as matrix wise, as well as being secret.

> Personally.. I think what would be a neat climactic event would be taking down
> ShadowLands for a day. Ergo, one last post by Sebastian, which gets cut off in
> the middle and then nobody posts for a full 24 hours. This would of course
> take massive organization over here on Plot-D.

And it would cause one hell of an unholy backlash. Since the yogi wishes
that his people avoid the matrix, I assume that this would require a
physical attack on the node itself. Which is god-knows-where, under the
protection of god-knows-what. Plus you get the chance to tick off at
least a good portion of the runners in Seattle, plus untold others in
CalFree and around the world that typically monitor it.

Not to say that it would be impossible, but I would really like to stress
that before this is undertaken that the people involved really consider
all of the implications of what they are doing and the kind of resources
it would take to do such a thing.

Now onto the original message:

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Sebastian Hamann wrote:

> There'll be a guy, he's calling himself the first Cyberyogi, founder of the
> first Cybertechnology Religion, called 'Logology'. Logology puts the
> logical reasoning of everything into highest Position. Also it teaches
> humanity to live without any brutality against itself, and teaches that the
> way which humanity follows at the moment is wrong, and will lead to utter
> destruction of mankind.
> This is, because as a believer of Logology, you need to attune your nerve
> system to the Cosmic Consciousness. By this you'll become a kind of
> terminal of the Cosmic Consciousness and can further spread Logology.
> 'Cyberyogis' are those Logologists, who reached the maximum level of
> attunement(?).

I have no problem with a new TM meets the Luddites religion springing up.
BIG question is how much of a following do you think that they can
achieve?

> I know this sounds like ********, but I think this is, what is created by
> true life, this can't be invented. (I can show you the facts...)

Hmmmmm. I'm not sure I understand this statement. Do you mean that even
though this sounds like BS, something like it exists in real life and that
you didn't just make it up? If that, then I agree. If you want to say
that this religion is real and true, then, well I may have to debate you
on that. Especially because it is scientifically faulty.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> So this should be enough....
>
> Ok, Cyberyogi is trying to do the following things:
>
> - He'll try to destroy satellite-dishes and radio-installations, for they
> emit High frequency waves (HF). Why ?? These destroy brain and nerve
> system. This could also include Power lines, for they emit some HF as well.

High frequency is relative. Radio band emissions are simply E-M
radiation. But they are at a frequency _orders of magnitude_ LOWER than
say, light. And therefore each photon of a radio emission has MUCH less
energy than even a photon of light.

Now, due to naming conventions, TV is relayed in HF or UHF (high-frequency
or ultra-high-frequency bands, but those are relative to typical radio
signals. The actual threat to biological material has never (and I have
good reason to believe will never) been proved. Typically you find that
the slightly higher rates of cancer near power lines are due to the fact
that power lines are usually run through the poorer and nastier parts of
town, where cancer would be more common independent of the power lines.
And in regards to computer systems. For the most part they are very well
EM shielded to keep outside fields from affecting the computer, but
therefore also keep EM fields inside the computer from getting out. Now,
given a jump to optical computing the EM fields sould be even further
reduced. (That's enough from Mr. Science, for now.)

> - He'll do damage to junk food sellers (like Stuffers) and Junk food
> industries. They do pollute the food with chemicals and spices and
> taste-enhancers(?) (Glutamate, E6XX), which causes loss of nerve
> attunement, damage to nerve system and so on...
> - He'll try to fight producers and dealers of drugs, which include:
> alcohol, narcotics, BTLs. Reasons, see above.
> - He'll fight pharmaceutic industries, for it's medicine like
> anti-depressive and nerve-medicine, for the above reasons.
> - He'll fight criminals (murders first of all), for they do harm to
> mankind, and spread brutality.

Okay, a band of zealot hari-krishna luddites running around the streets of
Seattle might be interesting or amusing, depending on how it is played,
however again, I have to wonder how effective they would be. I would
assume their strictures are also very anti-cybertech. Heck, that is
grafting an electro-magnetic device right onto your body. The horror!
Especially with the high power output of limbs (more than what a computer
would ever use), and the neural interface cyber putting HF emitting cyber
directly into the brain/spine should be anathama, unless they are being
hypocrites.

So, then one must ask what these people would be able to do to attack a
matrix router. They can't attack via the matrix, and they are really at a
disadvantage if it comes to physical combat. Magic might help, but of the
small free-lance magical population, what percentage will they get to go
along with their scheme and how will that match up to the astral security
for the node (can't have someone send elementals in and slag or soak the
router, can we?).

> Just plain think about it, for I think it's not _impossible_.

Not impossible, no, but how _improbable_?

> Further I _know_ that this is going to make him the most wanted guy in
> North America, or even the world, depends on where he wants his war to
> rage. But this is not changeable and therefore okay. ;))

Not exactly. He would have to do a _lot_ to bump Thunda off the
most-wanted shit-list. And there are a few other terrorists that would
probably be in line ahead of him. The question would be how effective he
was. If he and his band started out working against criminals, they might
start to gain a following, but even there, do you think that organized
crime is really going to stand there and let this guy mess up their trade?
So, his total impact is going to be questionable before he gets big enough
that certain people find him worthy of being "dealt with."

I think this guy could start small, and then build a reasonable following
for his cult. Heck, I wouldn't even mind you stipulating to the existance
of the group but that people simply hadn't heard about it until recently
because he had finally gotten enough into his fold to be noticed. A
couple 2059 celebrity endorcements (make them up, the future has to have
people like the Beatles and John Travolta) and his group can grow. And
only later will people find out how ardent his anti-tech stance is after
some terrorist incidents happen. (StufferShack and a McHugh's hit with
bomb threats, and then blow as soon as everybody is out.)

> No, what I mean, it's completely okay, once his disguise is broken, he'll
> be chased once and for all, but this A) should take some while and B)
> should bring some fun into Stk. For I'm probably going to post some of his
> Logology stuff, just to get everyone's attention.

Heh. About time for another rant to be spawned.

--My two yen

Jeff

From:	Sebastian Hamann <5hamann@**********.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:05:19 +0200

Message no. 4 At 11:40 05.04.98 -0600, you wrote:

>Heh.. I couldn't resist.
> I like the plot idea. About shutting down RTG's LTG's though..finding
where
>the physical nodes are located are going to be tough. Although... anybody

Yes, perhaps he will/could try to damage them through some kind of virus,
well I think I didn't mentioned it ... sorry, I would have, before I had it
done...

>the episode of X-files written by Gibson?

No, no idea what you speaking of....

>For some reason a T3 Hub was located in the middle of nowhere in a little
>trailer.. no protection other than the remoteness and secrecy of the
>location. Any thoughts on this? For that matter.. any thoughts on where the
>RTG/LTG hubs are located in physical space in general? Or are they just
>virtual locations? No true physical space counterpart at all?

Well you could just startblasting every matrix server you could find. One
of them has to be important ;))

>Personally.. I think what would be a neat climactic event would be taking
down
>ShadowLands for a day. Ergo, one last post by Sebastian, which gets cut
off in
>the middle and then nobody posts for a full 24 hours. This would of course

Well, this is even beyond my wildest Imaginations, lets see what everybody
else thinks about all of this...

>take massive organization over here on Plot-D.

Sure it does...

See you

Sebastian
=========
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From:	Justin Fang <justinf@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:49:10 -0700

Message no. 5 Sebastian Hamann wrote:
>Ok, Cyberyogi is trying to do the following things:
>
>- He'll try to destroy satellite-dishes and radio-installations, for they
>emit High frequency waves (HF). Why ?? These destroy brain and nerve
>system. This could also include Power lines, for they emit some HF as well.
>(He might think so...)
>- He'll try to destroy, or do damage to Computer systems (which includes
>the 'trix), for they emit HF.

Jeff touched on this a bit, but I'll note that just about everything that
uses AC current will generate some amount of electromagnetic radiation. How
much, what frequency, and so forth depends on the specifics of the device.
(Shielding will cut down on the amount of EM that actually gets outside the
device, of course.)

Anyway, the point is that depending on what this guy thinks is "high
frequency" (and on how self-consistently he applies the term), not only will
he oppose the things you mention, but also microwave ovens, portable phones,
electric cars, and probably most common household appliances. (By 2059,
computer chips--which generate radio waves--are going to be *everywhere*.
Even today, I believe GM used more microprocessors in its products last year
than IBM.)

Whils I don't object to this guy in principle, I think he should be a bit
more focused, otherwise it'll be impossible for him to function at all in
society, much less blow stuff up. His philosophy can oppose anything and
everything you like, but (at least initially) he should pick some relatively
small group of targets to focus his (and his followers') attention on.

--
Justin Fang (justinf@****.caltech.edu)
This space intentionally left blank.

From:	Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 12:43:47 +1200

Message no. 6 >any thoughts on where the
>RTG/LTG hubs are located in physical space in general? Or are they just
>virtual locations? No true physical space counterpart at all?

There was a previous post in which Marlowe (Paul Adams' character) cut off
matrix communication to an area by breaking up one of these LTG server
wossnames... last year sometime. I forget why now, but I'm sure it seemed
like a good idea at the time.

PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON

From:	Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 01:59:49 -0500

Message no. 7 On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Jeffrey Mach wrote:

> Problem with "taking down" a hub is that the matrix is probably even more
> redundant than the current telecommunications network which is already
> designed to almost instantaneously route around problems and failed hubs.
> And even the specific hubs would probably be redundant. So to take down
> the matrix connectivity of even a small area would be a very serious
> project.

Hardly. High speed network hardware is expensive and quickly outdated.
Keeping spares of everything lying around everywhere they might be needed
isn't cost effective except in really important places. Currently, the
datacomm infrastructire, probably much more so than the telecomm network,
(which I don't know nearly enough about), is reliant on central locations.
There are a lot of single points of failure. Serious problems at a place
like mae-east or WillowSprings can take a good chunk of the US off the
Internet, and I'm sure the same is the case for other places. There are
protocols for working around down areas, but they're buggy, they take a
good chunk of time to kick in, and they tend to get confused when the down
site comes back. Does anyone remember last year (?) when a good chunk of
the US west coast fell off the net? I don't remember the exact details,
but it's amazing what an idiot with a backhoe can do to the network.

This may or may not apply to 20XX Shadowland, as it's A: Fiction and B: an
entirely unknown access scheme.

Chuck McKenzie kilroy@***.cs.wisc.edu
http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~kilroy/ charlesm@**.wisc.edu
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From:	"Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:32:49 -0700

Message no. 8 According to Chuck McKenzie:
>Hardly. High speed network hardware is expensive and quickly outdated.

This is a matter of scale. A high capacity Cisco, Bay Networks, or other
heavy-weight router can be extremely economical for even a campus-size LAN;
it's equipment like the A5 that switches municipal phone calls that's
hideous.

>Keeping spares of everything lying around everywhere they might be needed
>isn't cost effective except in really important places. Currently, the
>datacomm infrastructire, probably much more so than the telecomm network,
>(which I don't know nearly enough about), is reliant on central locations.
>There are a lot of single points of failure. Serious problems at a place
>like mae-east or WillowSprings can take a good chunk of the US off the
>Internet, and I'm sure the same is the case for other places.

There's a very unassuming small building near where I grew up that extends
about 10 stories (or so) underground to prevent against indirect nuclear
strike: the point at which the trans-Pacific cables go offshore. Problems
there could impose a fairly unpleasant penalty in those lines of communication.

There are
>protocols for working around down areas, but they're buggy, they take a
>good chunk of time to kick in, and they tend to get confused when the down
>site comes back. Does anyone remember last year (?) when a good chunk of
>the US west coast fell off the net? I don't remember the exact details,
>but it's amazing what an idiot with a backhoe can do to the network.

Work on fail-over routing protocols is proceeding apace; by 205x I'm sure
they'd be fairly effective. The problems are that a) destroyed bandwidth
is destroyed bandwidth and a reroute won't give you back all the performance
and b) as you mentioned, if you go far enough down in the distribution tree
you can isolate some number of hosts by taking out their only POP. I
don't know what the budding terrorist has planned, but by assaulting a local
exchange he could probably deny service to tens or hundreds of thousands of
people's homes...businesses, hospitals, and other more "official" institutions
are almost sure to have either redundant or differently-routed Matrix links,
and a much lower percentage of them would fail.

>This may or may not apply to 20XX Shadowland, as it's A: Fiction and B: an
>entirely unknown access scheme.

Getting onto the Matrix can be assumed to be analogous to getting onto todays
Internet.
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Grad, VLSI http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict

From:	Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:58:46 -0400

Message no. 9 Interesting. A different brand of Luddites to be sure, but Luddites all
the same.

As for the servers being hit...anyone remember Grodin's Tavern? 'nuff said.

I think you'll have to be careful with these guys though. If they start to
seriously frag with the Matrix, they'll have every corporation plus to
otaku coming down on them are hard as is possible. They would have to know
this and would have to be smart about it. Pick their battles, you know?

And I would think they would probably have a militant arm that would do
these nasty things. The major wing would be in airports handing out
flowers or whatever, but a small elite cadre of physadepts (who else is
that in tune with their bodies and the cosmic will? these guys could be
terrifying) goes out and teaches the error of their ways to overly chromed
street samurai, smashing routers, firebombing computer stores, that sort of
thing.

And I'm down with a 24 crash of the Matrix. Would probably fit right in
with the entire Corporate War plot.

Erik J.

"Forgive me FASA for I have sinned. It has been 6 days since I last played
Shadowrun and 15 days since I last bought a SRTCG booster pack."

From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:19:38 +0100

Message no. 10 In message <Pine.GSO.3.96L.980406013301.14369B-
100000@*****.cs.wisc.edu>, Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU> writes
>Hardly. High speed network hardware is expensive and quickly outdated.
>Keeping spares of everything lying around everywhere they might be needed
>isn't cost effective except in really important places. Currently, the
>datacomm infrastructire, probably much more so than the telecomm network,
>(which I don't know nearly enough about), is reliant on central locations.
>There are a lot of single points of failure. Serious problems at a place
>like mae-east or WillowSprings can take a good chunk of the US off the
>Internet, and I'm sure the same is the case for other places.

Telehouse in London, for instance. Lose that and UK internet access goes
quiet for a while.

>This may or may not apply to 20XX Shadowland, as it's A: Fiction and B: an
>entirely unknown access scheme.

I see it as more, not less, likely: lots of corps, lots of squabbles,
lots of compatibility problems, lots of jurisdiction fights because
Renraku don't want their data going through any system controlled by
MCT...

From:	"Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 12:23:21 -0700

Message no. 11 According to Erik Jameson:
>And I'm down with a 24 crash of the Matrix. Would probably fit right in
>with the entire Corporate War plot.

A "24 hour" crash of the Matrix?? Not the whole thing, we won't. Not even a
major portion of it. Even simultaneous terrorist strikes against major
landline nexi aren't going to take the Matrix down as respects corps,
research institutes, etc. Localized disruptions to end users I can see...
_total_ shutdown of the Matrix a la the Internet Worm of 1988 is a) all but
impossible to cause, and b) would constitute a world-altering event in my view
that would be beyond the scope of the list.
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Grad, VLSI http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict

From:	Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:	Re: CYBERYOGI:New Plot clarification!
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:34:34 -0600

Message no. 12 >A "24 hour" crash of the Matrix?? Not the whole thing, we won't. Not even
a
>major portion of it. Even simultaneous terrorist strikes against major
>landline nexi aren't going to take the Matrix down as respects corps,
>research institutes, etc. Localized disruptions to end users I can see...
>_total_ shutdown of the Matrix a la the Internet Worm of 1988 is a) all but
>impossible to cause, and b) would constitute a world-altering event in my view
>that would be beyond the scope of the list.

I think he meant a 24 hour shutdown of ShadowLand Seattle, ie. the list.
However, I personally think that there should be some traffic during that
point calling attention to the fact that Seattle was taken out temporarily,
and then a lot of relief by everyone when it comes back on-line.
Obviously, Seattle ShadowLand being taken down wouldn't affect the internal
communications of megacorps (ie INTERNAL posts).

Brian

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