Anubis Incident

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
you can't hack a god it would just corrupt your ship and mainframe

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
No, but you can hack an AI, which ANUBIS is.

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
but he corrupts technology remember doing that would give him free reign

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
The hackers disconnected their computers from the rest of the PoI, so they're not putting anything else at risk.

He corrupts technology, but technology can be hacked.

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
but he can just corrupt the hardware you are using to hack him

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
True, but he's also going to have to deal with Lt. Peterson. The hackers are there to try to pull ANUBIS off of ATHENA while Lt. Peterson deals with ANUBIS directly. Also, the computer viruses will already be inside ANUBIS by then.

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
he is basically a god so multitasking can't be hard

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
He is not a god, he is a computer program named after a god.

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
i said basically a god and in his discription @translatorofthehiveminds says that we have no basis of what they are they are like Lovecraftian gods to us so how do you hack what you can't understand

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
You upload a computer virus.

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
but you don't understand it or how it works how do you upload something to something else when you don't know how it works.

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
Let me walk you through this step by step:
ANUBIS is an AI.
AIs are computer programs.
Computers use code to operate.
An expert hacker can easily learn that code and create a virus that exploits it.
Transmissions send and receive data.
Computer viruses are data, which can be sent and received just like any other data.
A computer's anti-virus can only fight off a virus it has encountered before.

ANUBIS has code.
Hackers learn code.
Hackers make virus to exploit code.
Hackers use transmission to send virus.
ANUBIS fails to fight off virus.

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
ok good thought process but this is an ancient ai that has spent millennia thinking i doubt this will work.

Drakador_Chaos

Tickytickytango
Well the issue is that´s not only an AI but also a hivemind, means, more or less, it´s a self-contained network of countless linked together separate AI´s each different from each other communicating and coordinating faster than a mortal mind can fathom, I´m not quite sure if one virus will get you anywhere, I wont be stopping you from trying though.

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
It has been dormant for millennia, not thinking, meaning it has never encountered these viruses before. Even if the viruses do not work completely, they will still demand its attention for some time.

Casual_Owl

Tickytickytango
but athena was been thinking this whole time uploading data to the data center anubis has corrupted the data center
i reread the first message and deleted the comment that was incorrect.

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
It has never encountered these specific viruses that we are using to hack it, which we created just now.

Tickytickytango

Casual_Owl
Even so, we just now created these viruses, no other computer has ever encountered them.

Tickytickytango

Drakador_Chaos
Despite being called hiveminds, I don't think that they are actually hiveminds. translator's explanation of the HIVEMINDS does not fit your definition, therefore, I don't think that they're actually hiveminds.

Drakador_Chaos

Tickytickytango
As I said, I won´t stop you from trying.