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WCDT Strips 3401-3405 (23rd to 27th January 2017)

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Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Jan 2017, 09:10 --->Or that encryption is somehow separate from the data?

If so that would make sense technically.

People have locking keyboxes to store physical keys in, and there are ways to use encryption that involve a "key encryption key" that the monster might have represented.

If Emily pshooed a KEK, though, there should be a block of forever incomprehensible stuff in the room.

--- End quote ---

The encryption was part of the lock on the door. The monster was malware meant to wreak havoc  were the encryption to be broken by either Bubbles or another AI (hence the need for Emily's involvement).

Gyrre:
Looks like Creepybot has finally established that they had little to no ulterior motive. Though, tomorrow could change everything.

Perfectly Reasonable:
Well, the story certainly took an unexpected left turn at Albuquerque. If Jeph wanted to make me upset and confused, he certainly got the full effect. I should have known better. There's been too much invested in all this buildup to have it end with a lot of nothing.

Now when GrayCreep talks about the Sanctity of Mind, I believe the collective is being perfectly sincere.
Editing of memories, or the implanting of fake memories, would be ultimately horrific to an AI. If anything like this is going on, it must be Stamped Out At Once.

So why aren't they going after Corpse Witch directly? Possibly they are circumscribed by their own ethics. We have not seen Corpse Witch's side of this.

Are the memories really lost forever? GrayCreep seems to think so. But we know, per Bubbles, that backups are possible. And per Morituri, it seems certain that the actions of a prototype combat AI in the field would have been recorded by the military.

I don't believe that the collective is hiding some horrific agenda. The reason for the ominous hints? Because once they're done here, they don't want to be bothered.
 
I think we will see that the collective is hardly all powerful. There are things they can't do. There are things they don't want to do. There are things they won't let themselves do.

Tova:
It's slightly odd for an entity that never lies to use the phrase, 'to be honest.'

ZoeB:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 23 Jan 2017, 20:09 ---And like that...they're gone, as quickly as they arrived. Who knows if/when they'll be back and/or what we'll learn about them.

--- End quote ---

Probably never seen again. They only intervene in matters that are important.

Poor Bubbles. She's in the best of hands though.

As for the Eminence Gris - i apparently think like her. CW might have reason to thank her lucky stars that they are likely to temper Justice with Mercy. If rehabilitation isn't possible, she'll be retained for analysis, after that it will be quick and pain free. But try rehabilitation first, and they need to know what circumstances made CW what she is. I hope healing her is possible. I may have to settle for neutralising the threat. I prefer winning to breaking even, but sometimes it's not possible. Sometimes it would require deeds that are unacceptable - not a consensual procedure as with Bubbles, but a mind rape. So that's out, no matter how inconvenient.

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