From: | Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU> |
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Subject: | Re: List Dates /Virus |
Date: | Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:39:13 +0000 |
> gurth@******.nl 6223
> u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk 2344
> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu 1617
> chaos@*****.com 1576
> dbuehrer@****.org 1477
> lobo1@****.com 1402
> ratinox@***.neu.edu 1369
> m.j.steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk 1228
> bob@**.ntu.edu.au 1020
> jormung@*****.umich.edu 950
going on to Me. :)
> sascha.pabst@**********.uni-oldenburg.de 936
> rjr96326@****.utulsa.edu 926
> feanor@**********.uni-bremen.de 904
> adm82@***.edu.au 865
> ereskanti@***.com 797
> bxb121@***.edu 795
#16! Wow, I must talk a lot if I can come in and in less than a year
take #16 from over 4 years worth of posts.... But then Bull took #4
in just over a year...
(Gee, 1 more post and I can take #5/#15...:) )
does this mean I talk to much? Do I ever say anything worth hearing
(reading)?
Anyway, in an attempt to keep this on topic (and EARN my #5 :)
What would someone think about about a psychotropic/electric
virus....
Example:
Decker A gets whacked with the Black IC and gets infected...he now
has a nasty little subconcious impulse that has two parts:
1) He instinctively broadcasts the equivilant of a big flag when he's
online....but you only notice it if you are looking for it....this
lets the company the programmed the IC set up a simple scan for
anyone waving this "flag", thus bypassing the deckers wonderful
sleaze utility.
(This would work in a manner similar to making the person habitually
slap the Return key an extra time in a command line
interface....normally it does nothing, but if the interface
(say...Company A's Server) was set to watch for that.....Remember,
this is an analogy only)
2) [This is where things get funky] He must somehow transmit this
affect to others. The options I can come up with are:
-If the IC fragment is "simple" enough programming wise, he does it
on the fly when meeting another decker and never notices.
-He writes his own "infect" routine and uses it when combatting
another decker.
-He includes it in any programs he writes, and any deckers that copy
them and run them get infected.
Naturally I don't expect the decker to come up with Black IC
routines, but I'm not sure what is involved in the psychotropic part
of the programming....Is the complex part of Black IC the "force your
deck to fry your own brain" or is it everything or is it just
bypassing all the normal ASIST signal filters?
Can anyone come up with a "psychological virus" like this? [I've
been reading too many meme papers recently]
-=SwiftOne=-
(On the way to #5!)
Brett Borger
SwiftOne@***.edu
AAP Techie