جزئیات کتاب
فرمت
کیندل
صفحات
24
زبان
انگلیسی
منتشر شده
Jun 13, 2012
ناشر
wordsSHIFTminds
ISBN-10
0992249457
ISBN-13
9780992249458
توضیحات
An addictive personality can be a ticking time-bomb.
“A nice piece of frightening securityspeak to conjure with: forever-day bugs, which are known bugs that the vendor has no intention of patching.” Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net, April 2012
“The number of security holes that remain unpatched in software used to control refineries, factories, and other critical infrastructure is growing. It’s becoming so common that security researchers have coined the term ‘forever days’ to refer to the unfixed vulnerabilities.” arstechnica.com, April 2012
“Mark had hoped the amputations would cause the sensations to diminish in proportion to the loss of the limbs. He wouldn’t have been able to articulate this clearly but secretly wished for the buzzing to dim the way a light bulb dims when it’s connected to a rheostat. He felt it in his nerve-endings; a microscopic quaking like a suit of armour – yes, electric armour – clothing him in heavy static.
“But if anything the buzz was growing, becoming more intense; especially around the stumps, where it burned fiercely. And he felt as though this armoured cladding was shrinking and would eventually suffocate him.
“He imagined himself walking around in chainmail, accompanied by the chink-chink sound it would make with every cumbersome footfall.”
Mark’s problem started out as something skin-deep: a subcutaneous, recreational implant for simulated stimulation: a “sim-stim”. Now an unpatched bug in the body-mod is using strong-arm tactics to persuade him to kill himself.
A speculative tale about what might happen in the future when an urge for quick gratification turns on us, takes command and ultimately mutates into a suicidal impulse.
“A nice piece of frightening securityspeak to conjure with: forever-day bugs, which are known bugs that the vendor has no intention of patching.” Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net, April 2012
“The number of security holes that remain unpatched in software used to control refineries, factories, and other critical infrastructure is growing. It’s becoming so common that security researchers have coined the term ‘forever days’ to refer to the unfixed vulnerabilities.” arstechnica.com, April 2012
“Mark had hoped the amputations would cause the sensations to diminish in proportion to the loss of the limbs. He wouldn’t have been able to articulate this clearly but secretly wished for the buzzing to dim the way a light bulb dims when it’s connected to a rheostat. He felt it in his nerve-endings; a microscopic quaking like a suit of armour – yes, electric armour – clothing him in heavy static.
“But if anything the buzz was growing, becoming more intense; especially around the stumps, where it burned fiercely. And he felt as though this armoured cladding was shrinking and would eventually suffocate him.
“He imagined himself walking around in chainmail, accompanied by the chink-chink sound it would make with every cumbersome footfall.”
Mark’s problem started out as something skin-deep: a subcutaneous, recreational implant for simulated stimulation: a “sim-stim”. Now an unpatched bug in the body-mod is using strong-arm tactics to persuade him to kill himself.
A speculative tale about what might happen in the future when an urge for quick gratification turns on us, takes command and ultimately mutates into a suicidal impulse.