At 01:17 AM 6/12/00 -0500, Sean Roach wrote:
>At 11:23 PM 6/10/00 -0400, Peter Trei wrote:
>>Ryan wrote:
>>
>>In Snow Crash, there was one Sovereign Individual, who governments
>>accorded
>>standing as such. He could do this because he was a nuclear power - he
>>traveled everywhere with an armed warhead built into a motorcycle sidecar,
>>and a deadman switch linked to his heartbeat. If he died, bang! (I can't
>>recall if Stephenson dealt with the problem of an adversary who just
threw him
>>in jail, or other non-lethal nastinesses)
>
>He didn't. At least not in Snow Crash. The book ends with Hiro
>Protagonist, (The Hero, The Protagonist. I like the book fine, but that's
>not exactly the most original name. Still better than Joe Smith though,)
>"killing" the Aleut's avatar, then launching an antivirus program with an
>ad attached.
That was in the Metaverse. Out in Meatspace, Raven and Uncle Enzo
get in a fight that sounds like one or both of them are going to die,
but the Bomb doesn't get mentioned, and hasn't been mentioned in a while.
I got the impression that Neal just didn't bother cleaning up that loose end.
But even with out it, Hiro wasn't close to being the Baddest Motherfucker
In The World....
>By the way. You want the computer hard disk completely destroyed for the
>same reason that you would want to take the pad of paper you wrote your
>secret info on, with you. With the paper, you could do a rubbing to reveal
>what the page above said...
Destruction is nice, but it's more important to require that all the disks
only have encrypted data written to them, so that you can zap the contents
temporarily by cutting power if you're invaded, rather than having to
thermite the whole thing and hope you've destroyed the whole thing well
but also that you can build up repeat business somehow.
Secret-shared offsite backup may be useful as well, for customers who want
it.
Thanks!
Bill
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Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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