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The original BigZapper program was written in a very advanced tech language, but when he had to rewrite it, he needed to write them using the current existing programming languages, taking a long time for him.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Given that his download speed was fast (500 mbps), it would take about 20 hours for him to complete the download and because he needed to make sure that no one was suspicious of what he was doing, he needed to make it appear that the emails he was downloading acted just like normal emails being sent, so he set a limit on how many emails can be downloaded at once.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Thus, he started to look through the three documents, however, this time, it took him a little longer since they were extremely lengthy. After approximately five hours, he finally managed to finish reading through all the files.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
He then felt someone squirm around him and after a short moment of adjustment, he remembered that it was his younger brother who had fallen asleep on his bed after watching a movie together the previous night.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
However, he will only be using it mainly for running BugZapper on multiple virtual machines simultaneously. He will be accessing all of this from his workroom which was upstairs by using the 10-gigabit ethernet network connection. Furthermore, he also ensured that his house had the fastest cable connection available at the time, which provided a download speed of up to 505 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 100 Mbps. ( for 2013 that was really fast.)
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
The house was a spacious 6-bedroom property with a ground floor, an upper floor and a basement.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
4. Meet Sarah.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
It was agreed that Aron's payment will be $ 69 million after deducting all the taxes and lawyer fees. Although his friend initially denied an offer of being paid $ 10 million stating that he didn't do much, however, after a small discussion with Aron, he ended up agreeing to take $ 5 million as a fee.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
From a simple fast calculation, Roxana determined that they would need to invest almost 250 million, moreover, it would also take months to finish this task since most of these vulnerabilities were new and they would have to invent the solutions by themselves.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
And since Facebook had a larger system size, the impact he would have through Facebook will be higher when compared to the University's system, along with that it took nearly two weeks to complete the extensive evaluation of the Facebook's system due to the massive amounts of information to sort and a crappy computer contributing to it didn't help much either.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
However, he got a grade of F minus because he had downgraded the program for it to work in the current era, the system interpreted it as him not using the program to its fullest potential.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Damn, the dude even wrote a letter to the scholarship department, for fuck sake. Aron realized that he could potentially use this information to his advantage to sue both the professor and the university. However, he will need to reveal where he got these private emails from. So, this evidence might as well backfire on him.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Damn, the dude even wrote a letter to the scholarship department, for fuck sake. Aron realized that he could potentially use this information to his advantage to sue both the professor and the university. However, he will need to reveal where he got these private emails from. So, this evidence might as well backfire on him.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Currently, his cheap computer would even be able to cook an omelette from the heat that it had been generating. And to mitigate the issue, Aron had to set up an impromptu cooling system by using his household fan.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
You can think of it being akin to translation works, and since the program given by the system was designed to be intended to check programs that were written in the year 2100 and later, Aron needed to translate the system and make it compatible so that it could be able to work with programs that were written even earlier than that time.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
And so, his journey with the system started with him rushing to complete one Punchman's workout and knowing that someone was in for a face-slapping moment of their life.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
"Furthermore, it's also most likely possible that I won't be getting a job either, because, for some reason, it has been leaked out that I have plagiarised my thesis. So, I already have a negative reputation in the entire industry," Aron added, trying to restrain himself from cursing in front of his parents and his little brother, Henry, who was oblivious to whatever was happening.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
KetchupOnRice
Futhark: A language that uses Scandinavian runes to create complex programs that can interfere with and control a wide range of machines and devices, from simple robots to advanced artificial intelligence systems.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047