C-081: Maldemar 732 (Hyperspace to Zarg’s World)


Not long before bed in Red Shift 211.429 Oliver completes his research into IT Project#55.

Argyle’s project #55 seems to be some of Argyle’s initial work on his ‘hide a message inside the network’ project.  It contains several separate projects that explore different ideas about how to go about doing that.  Oliver may be particularly interested in Argyle’s test rig – essentially a  software emulation of the Dominion’s PubNet communications framework.  It doesn’t look like he wrote it all himself as there’s huge slabs of stuff he’s obviously copied from other sources, but some of the sections are revealing, with internal comments like: 

/* Now let’s see if I can remember how this part works */

Followed by lines of code that duplicate what Oliver knows to be security restricted functions.  Some of this he’s already figured out from his own nefarious activities, but some is new to him.

With a little work, if he cared to, he could adapt Argyle’s comms test rig to his own use if there were ideas he wanted to test.  
 

1 Response

  1. Oliver Starr says:

    Noted. But he’s going to be super careful about this hiding message business.

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