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uly? They must learn to hide it early. Anyway, this provoked the "fixxit
team" to create the subcarrier firmware that allows untraceable contacts.
Amazing work, really. It's reformed our sex lives and made government security
efforts on electronic media completely irrelevant, yet it could NOT be banned,
because the subcarrier hardware and firmware is part of the patented,
proprietary chipset of every Chairiot. The chipset that makes it possible to
do the neural interface without breaking skin and tapping nerves.
SH: Made the software illegal. Now everybody's a criminal.
HI: Oh, not everybody. Hardly anybody at all. Only a few millions.
SH: _Everybody_. Everybody who counts.
Chapter Three
The program interface looks and feels like a very, very expensive laptop of 30
years ago; an antique. It's a perfect emulation of a Lapdesk 286/turbo. Which
means that there are megabytes of files and stuff to wade through before you
even hit on the proper initialization sequence. I boot up an antique comm
program and I can hear the hard drive whir, even feel a slight inertial tug as
it spins up. Nice touch; not sure I believe it...
Once it's up I load one of 20 phonebook lists, all of which have 30 year
old phone numbers.
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