At 07:50 AM 5/24/2003 -0500, you wrote: >That was a nice little bone for UNIX geeks and I appreciated it. But >realistically, you would imagine that the AI running the Matrix would have >detected and patched that hole a couple of hundred years prior to Trinity >running that exploit. ;) Or instead, it was simply an appropriate >metaphorical analog in Trinity's mind that she was hacking into the >system. It raises a number of interesting questions: was the SSH hole >intended to be there so as to correctly model a 1999-circa computer >network that runs a power station? Why did the machines need to use humans >to run the Matrix if they were aware of the generation of electricity via >nuclear power to the extent that they were able to appropriately model it? >Wouldn't it be easier for the machines to mine some uranium, generate the >power themselves and kill off the humans?
The server *in* the matrix was running SSH. So yes, it was correctly modeling a computer system from our age. --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
