From:	Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Check this...
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 1993 14:40:40 +0930

>>>>>[ Well, Corinthian, your friend is ambitious, to say the least. More
seriously:
The Matrix was set up to be "invincible". It was formed from the debris
of such networks as Internet, Compuserve, and America On-Line, after the great
crash of '29. When Fuchi set it up, they wanted to make damn sure it couldn't
go down.
But, as anyone who has talked to Captain Chaos about the Pueblo net
knows, power dynamics theory says that every network has a choke point. Take
out the choke point, and the system goes down. The trick to working out the
choke point is finding enough information. Get the idea of how tricky this is
going to be? To be 100% sure of your answer, you must have the specs of EVERY
node of EVERY system connected to the Matrix.
Now, given that the maths takes a little while, your answer will be out
of date. Fortunately, you don't have to go to such an extreme to figure out the
answer to a reasonable accuracy. And for subnets, it becomes easier. Many
military forces, both corp and government, have looked at how to take out
subnets. When I worked for the Australian Defence Force, a case study was how
to take out the South-East Asian Union's subnet. And I know for a fact that the
Azzies have been looking at Mitsuhama's net very intensely for the last few
years.
Getting back to the idea of crashing the whole matrix, you could get a
good approximation by taking out the server which controls the LTGs. Have fun:
it's the Corporate Court in Zurich-Orbital. Now go play.
The only other way would be to "re-create" the virus of '29. Get a
powerful viral construct, and set it loose. But the corps would almost
certainly contain it, after a while, and your friend of a friend would have a
bounty higher than the GDP of the UCAS. ]<<<<<
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