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WCDT Strips 3396-3400 (16th to 20th January 2016)

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Is it cold in here?:
>2) This room is a blind trap and the Memories are actually hidden behind the back wall which is a very cleverly disguised Security Firewall

Such things exist in the world of malicious software. Very good concealment techniques exist even in today's non-intelligent computers. An AI's brain must be more complicated and offer more hiding places.

It doesn't matter how hardened Corpse Witch's core module is. As long as there's a fresh backup she can't really be killed. If backups are impossible then it's necessary to retcon some of the early Pintsize adventures.

bhtooefr:
I'm getting the impression that backups are illegal now, whereas they weren't back then.

Basically, a backup is creating a new sentient intelligence, which would be destroyed when a new backup is taken (murder).

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Jan 2017, 01:11 --->2) This room is a blind trap and the Memories are actually hidden behind the back wall which is a very cleverly disguised Security Firewall

Such things exist in the world of malicious software. Very good concealment techniques exist even in today's non-intelligent computers. An AI's brain must be more complicated and offer more hiding places.
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The whole-disk encryption software I used at work offered the capability to install a complete fake operating system and environment which is opened up by a second password.  This way, the manual tells you in all seriousness (I kid you not!), you can give up the second password when you are being tortured for it (OK, the current version no longer mentions "torture") without giving away any clue what is really on your disk, or any access to it.  Of course, this assumes that the baddies are unaware of this capability of the software...

I hope that at least is what's going on here - but I am still somewhat underwhelmed by the way it's being shown.

Method of Madness:

--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 20 Jan 2017, 01:28 ---I'm getting the impression that backups are illegal now, whereas they weren't back then.

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Why would that stop Corpsie?

bhtooefr:
It'd at least deal with the problems of retconning Pintsize adventures.

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