Chapter 276: (Black Box) (2/2)
”Quantum?” Legion asked.
Sam shook his head. ”Not necessarily. Back then, any computations done by a quantum computer could be done by a 'traditional' computer given enough time and computing speed. But here's the thing, the system doesn't have to decrypt it.”
”It doesn't?” Legion asked.
Sam shook his head. ”Not on the storage side. The brain is scanned, the neural template is then compressed with quantum computers according to a compression algorithm that I'm making good headway on cracking because I can compare the uncompressed data to the compressed data, then it is sent via hardened binary to another system that stores it. The system then hands over the requested compressed data to the requesting machine, which uses molycirc systems to decompress it, and poof, complete neural template.”
Legion whistled. ”They don't have to decompress it, merely store it.”
Sam nodded. ”Everyone thinks the missing part of the SUDS network is some kind of magical thing running error coding and keeping a constant watch on the neural templates of tens of billions of people, but that's not true.”
”It's a storage system,” Legion groaned. ”It's a goddamn hard drive.”
”Like I said, I'm making headway, but not anything that would seem important to anyone else,” Sam said. He looked down at Sir Purrsalot. ”Sorry I'm not much help.”
Legion shook his head. ”No, don't say that. The fact that you're the first person I can remember who stated that the SUDS system wasn't some magical thing dealing with thousands of people's brains and doing magical stuff to them, but just a glorified long distance wireless enabled instant hard drive makes everything I've invested in you worth it.”
”Really?” Sam asked, looking up, his miserable expression vanishing.
”Yes, Sam. You've identified what it is, how it talks, what it says, how it says hello and goodbye,” Legion said, moving toward the door. ”You're even figuring out the compression algorithm, which means soon you'll know what its saying.”
Legion stopped his hand a bare micrometer from the panel's activation field and looked at Sam.
”Which means you're on your way to going from hacking the SUDS network to hacking SoulNet.”
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MANTID FREE WORLDS> I'm teredeyeslling you I'redeyesm perfredeyesectly firedeyesne.
RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
I know you are, sis. Just wait till we get TerraSol and Cyb in here. They'll know what to do.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
You know, it's been a while since anyone has seen them.
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>CONFEDMIL has entered the chat
>CONFEDMIL has left the chat (SOLNET ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE)
>CONFEDMIL has entered the chat
>CONFEDMIL has left the chat (CRC ERROR)
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Ooooh, that's not good.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
>CONFEDMIL has entered the chat
>CONFEDMIL has left the chat (INVALID PROTOCOL)
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Why can't he get in?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
I don't know. Dammit, where's Cyb?
!lastseen CYBERNETICORGANISMCOOPERATIVE
>CYBERNETICORGANISMCOOPERATIVE was last seen 2mon 11d 14h 22min 18.84s ago
!lastseen TERRASOL
>TERRASOL was last seen 2mon 11d 14h 22min 18.86s ago
!lastseen BASS
>BASS was last seen 2mon 11d 14h 22min 18.89s ago
!lastseen TERRASOLMILINT
>ERROR TERRASOLMILINT NOT FOUND
!lastseen CONFEDMILINT
>ERROR CONFEDMILINT NOT FOUND
!lastseen CONFEDMIL
>CONFEDMIL was last seen 2mon 11d 14h 22min 22.05s ago
RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
Ooooh, this isn't good.
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AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT ZONE
Why? What's going on?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
There is no pure Terran Descent Humanity in the chat.
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TNVARU GESTALT
That sounds
WAR
bad.
Wait, who said that?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS>What? Whredeyesat did I miredeyesss?
TNVARU GESTALT
I thought I WAR heard something.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
I heard NEVER it too.
OK, who's doing that?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
I've got a bad feeling about this.