From:	Michael Garoni <Michael_Garoni@****.INTERSOLV.COM>
Subject:	Re[2]: Gibson - Voodoo Loa
Date:	Tue, 1 Mar 1994 16:14:00 LCL

Phlatline:
:]Ok i read all of the books like 3 time each...what I can't understand is what
:]the biosoft that was grafted into angie's brain actually did? I think that it
:]was made to restructure part of her mind into a diff thinking
:]ummm....construction (can't think of anything better). What I can't fathom is
:]what kind of links were used by the cyber decks to the grid....there seemed to
:]be no solid link that kept them up and running...case could jack out of his
:]while the mole did it's work, un-less Dixie Flatline was in a sense running
:]the show...
:]
:]if i seem like I am blathering on sorry, trying to provoke a conversation..

Smoke:
I think that I only read it twice before some *&^%&*^$%#%$#%$#@ nicked my entire
set. As such, I can't remember all of the details, but I don't think that it
was ever really explained how the deckers worked. When Case let his mole keep
going after he logged out, to use today's type thinking you could do that. The
important thing about a piece of software is that it needs some hardware to run
on. You could set the mole up as a background task on the target machine, and
then log out. I don't really remember what the mole was doing, but this seems
feasible. You may need to give it a false userid or make it look like an
operating system process ^shrug^. From there, it could even clone itself in an
almost virus like manner, and launch probes against other systems. Even in
Shadowrun terms this could be possible. Somewhere it simplifies matrix work
down to you trying to get programs from your cyberdeck to run on the host, while
IC etc tries to get its programs to run on your deck. If that is the way that
it actually works, someone could create a nasty piece of IC that runs in the
decker's deck and tries to autoactivate as soon as the deckers connects to the
deck. This is all just speculation of the wildest type, but you wanted to start
a conversation!

As to the bioware in Angie - I'm confused! Someone earlier mentioned that
Wintermute had something to do with the design of the bioware, which sounds
familiar. If so, it is likely that it was done so that the AI could experience
the flesh world. Why would it want to? Perhaps it thought it was missing out
on something ? Maybe it wanted to understand more about the motivations of it's
creators etc? Maybe it did see the fragmentation of itself coming, but that
wasn't the impression that I had. I think that when this occured, it simply
took advantage of a situation.

Anybody else have any ideas, comments ?