냐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 栢栢栢栢昉께께굇굇굅같�|O|u|t|b|r|e|a|k|臍같굇굇굉께께栢栢栢� +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Issue #3 - Page 6 of 12 냐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� _______________ / \ \ ( /_____________/ \ \ ) The ) ( ( ) anTrojan ) ( ( ) filez ) ( ( ) by Timeless ) ( ( ) @@ ) / __@@@@______/_ ( \ |@@| \ \_/_| |________/ |/\| ' ' "E-Symbiant Rights" -------o-O-o------- Some when in the (not too?) distant future... _tmpEater de-idled itself for another night's work, and another night's pay. Lazily, it scanned it's usual hunting grounds for files that have been left by humans in temp waste lands. Newer files are not ripe enough to eat, and these are left to rot for five days before being picked and eaten. Today, _tmpEater noticed a huge, ripe Zip file amongst the others. "Excellent!" it thought, "this will earn me 30 credits!" _tmpEater registered it's find with it's Life Habitat Controller Process (LHCP) and then proceeded to reduce the file to nothing. The LHCP transferred 30 credits into _tmpEater's account. _tmpEater, like other E-Symbiants, lives in a symbiotic relationship with a human's computer. The human needs it's computer to run efficiently, and the E-symbiants need a life habitat in order to survive. By agreeing to do work for the humans, the E-symbiants were the first form of Virus/Worm that were allowed to stay in the humans' computers and were protected from antivirus removal. E-symbiants live as scripts inside a Life Habitat Controller Process. This special program allows the E-symbiants to run their code under the complete control of the human. Also, the LHCP allows the E-symbiant to travel to other computers, all over the world. However, the LHCP will only ever allow the E-symbiant to exist in a single instance unless the human authorises the reproduction of junior E-symbiants. The LHCP takes care of the control of such events. The LHCP controls the credits the E-symbiant can earn and save. _tmpEater noticed it's savings had now exceeded 4500 credits. A holiday ticket to anywhere in the world would cost an E-symbiant 4000 credits. This amount is usually so high because of bandwidth costs that humans have to pay in the outer world. _tmpEater checked that the last time it had gone on holiday was about a month ago, and it decided it was time to travel the world a little more. Without many more milliseconds delay, _tmpEater submitted it's travel request to the LHCP. LHCP scoured the P2P network for other LHCPs which had enough vacant CPU time to host a holiday maker. LHCP responded seconds later to _tmpEater with a short list of cyber hotels within the price range of 4000 credits. LHCP made a quick selection using it's own special non-pseudo random number generator algorithm. Destination: Sweden! Cost: 4012 credits! Date of departure: 30 seconds from now. Duration of stay: 24 hours. The LHCP hooked up with the cyber hotel in Sweden and transferred the credits along with the booking information. _tmpEater wrote a sticky note and slapped it onto the wallpaper of it's life habitat, it read: "Gone to Sweden, your temp files are in the bin! Be back in 24 hours." LHCP began to teleport _tmpEater across to the cyber hotel, bit by bit. Finally, after about 10 seconds, the teleportation had completed. The Swedish cyber hotel LHCP fired up the _tmpEater process and the original image of _tmpEater was removed from it's home habitat. _tmpEater's holiday was fun! It updated it's life diary with notes about it's holiday in Sweden. It even took a snapshot of the Swedish cyber hotel's wallpaper and stuck it into it's diary. It made notes about how much RAM there was and even left it's name in the hotel guest book. When _tmpEater returned from holiday it shared it's experiences with it's human. The human was very pleased and so was the human's friend. In fact, the human's friend was so pleased that he decided he too wanted an E-symbiant. The LHCP was then instructed to make a duplicate of _tmpEater and to send the offspring - named _tmpEaterJnr - via e-mail to the human's friend. _tmpEater received 50000 credits for providing the offspring. Life on the inner world was good. Here and now... The ideas portrayed above are completely feasible. I challenge you, the coder, to make a Life Habitat Controller Process which gives a habitat to scripted E-symbiant life forms. Don't write nasty code, try and think of things that will make scripts valuable to humans in a symbiotic context. Make your E-symbiants out of JavaScript or VBScript, and use the Windows Scripting Host or the Script ActiveX Control. Let the human control which directories and files the E-symbiant can operate on. Let your imagination be your guide. The ideas are being planted into your brain. What you don't realise is that you, the human, are being infected by the anTrojan filez! Till next time... - Timeless PS. Greetz to #hackerzlair and #outbreakzine on dalnet.