27 Jul
2001
27 Jul
'01
1:44 p.m.
During "Operation Sundevil", the feds kicked down a lot of doors looking
for the "cyberdecks" that amplify brainwaves for cracking systems.
They never did acknowledge that they were mistaken, nor that Steve Jackson
Games was involved in SCIENCE FICTION, not real overthrow of the guvmint.
But they did eventually return most of the pieces of his hard drives,
motherboards, etc.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Bryan Pope wrote:
Have you read Neuromance by William Gibson? In the book they have
computer protection called "Black ICE" which can kill someone trying
to break into a computer over the network.
If I remember correctly, the 'netrunner' character class in the Cyberpunk
RPG has a direct neural interface to the net, and (h|cr)ack with it. The
danger in that comes from the ability of the netrunner's adversaries to
crack into that interface and do nasty things like stop the netrunner's
heart.
Gives a whole new meaning to "reach out and touch someone".
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com