| From: | Karl Low <kwil@*********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Fw: Newbie92739434 |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:19:45 -0700 |
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>The Newbie is a kid, and a little one at that. (Another little kid posting
>to Shadowland Dear Lord Almighty please tell me when will it stop? =) )
Sorry, I'm fairly new here and I didn't see anything like that so I thought it
might be interesting to run..
if it's overdone I'm sure he's in enough crap already it'd be fairly easy to
wipe him out.
>And he's inside the Ares arcoplex. And he's been "monitored" as a "pet
>project" by Ares matrix security.
Pet project I guess was too strong a word to use. An experimental project
perhaps.. "What happens when we give this kid a jack and put him online before
he knows how to speak?" My thoughts on this are the first few years would
have been heavily supervised/monitored.. now it's been a few and they're
introducing him to the real world and watching how he reacts.
>Ares, the North American military-industrial complex megacorp has an interest
in this kid, he posts to
>Shadowland with a message thet gets the FBI and SIGA interested, and he is
still going to school, as >opposed to a vault deep somewhere with fifty tons
of the latest in military harware between him and the >outside world, while
the lawyers figure out the extraterritorial mumbo-jumbo with the Feds.
See above.
>And they don't know about it because he uses his homebrew deck that said
>megacorporate security a) doesn't know about, b) didn't bother to bug, and
>c) didn't keep an eye out for with frames on any and all of the access
>points the kid would be able to get access to. Right. "Hey George,
>somebody in #th Grade is punching out into the open matrix and just
>bypassed our lockdown." "Is it Timmy's computer?" "Nope."
"Guess its
>not him, lets go have a brew."
a) How big is mail order in 205x? Is it reasonable to assume they'd go through
every package addressed to his household? To his neighbors? I'm sure they
have some idea that he's got one, but I don't think they realize just what
he's done to it yet.
b) If he doesn't let the thing out of his sight and is constantly modifying
it, it could be tough to bug.
c) I was thinking that access to the matrix, especially from a school, would
be quite high. Various libraries, film documentaries, etc. His mod'd deck
doesn't raise their flag that says Project 64A-23c or whatever so it just
slides by.
In reference to that, all this recent activity around the Matrix and
specifically his school is sure to have raised some eyebrows. I would be
expecting his mother to be getting an unwelcome knock on her door fairly soon
and being asked why she hasn't reported all of his activities as per agreement
XIX 3a-c etc. when she admitted him to the project.
And BITD has, in about one day, managed to
>infiltrate the same school as the "pet project" past security that, after
>a recent spate of terrorism should be "tighter than a nun's habit" as they
>say.
I was curious about that one myself. I'll let him explain it since I'm not
sure I understand it but there was enough hand waving going on I wanted to see
what's in mind.
>
>Not to say that any of things are impossible, but they shouldn't be made
>to sound so trivially easy.
Agreed.. and they're not.. that's why this is in plot-d instead of the tk bit.
His trail as I see it has been one of a mistake by a watch-team.. ("It's a
fuchi-4 going to Project.." "Drop a tracker in it and let him have it."
"Think that'll be enough?" "How old is he? What do you think?") A
mother's
protective love, "Well.. he's at least happy now with that deck to play with..
maybe it'll cheer him up some.. besides, I'm sure they've already marked it.."
and a kid who's gotten ahead of the projected curves.
It wasn't my intention to create a munchkin or an unoriginal type.. but if
I have, I'll be most happy to write him out of the story.
Karl
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