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[Kyoko Sakoda]

YULAI – A live broadcast from DED Headquarters was interrupted moments ago, when a Drifter battleship suddenly appeared outside the station in orbit of Yulai X and began emitting what was believed to be a high frequency broad-band data stream that crashed fluid routers and switches across five separate solar systems in the area.

The result of that rush is the familiar Fluid router, which forms the building block of universal communication as we know it today. Ignoring the mathematical intricacies, the architecture of these routers is deceivingly simple. The first step of their manufacturing is the creation of the entangled quantum states. This is done by using superfluid 4-Helium, where essentially all the Helium atoms are entangled in a single quantum state due to Bose condensation. A droplet of such liquid 4-Helium is then carefully separated in two. From this point, the two droplets, and more specifically the Helium atoms in the droplets are intrinsically tangled. Each droplet is then placed in separate router box, that contain necessary mechanism to encode and decode bytestream into quantum state measurements performed on the atoms of the droplet. From that point on, these two routers are linked together, regardless of their separation. Thus a spaceship will usually buy a router pair from a network provider. One box will be placed in the spaceship, while the other one kept in the network provider’s backbone, that will have connections to other routers, thus effectively forming a decentralized network, where messages can be routed across many routers and many providers. This architecture is similarly to the ancient Internet.

So as a graduate of a media studies program and general media studies nerd this has me going in circles.

[Esna Pitoojee]

 

The only assumption I can come up with is that it's a case of poor phrasing: The signal was responsible for crashing the routers, but only by physically reaching the nearest router and interacting with it to insert some code (I'm resisting the urge to shout "hack the mainframe!") that crashed the routers.

[Louella Dougans]

Jovians.
Nanites.
Jovian Nanites.
Nanite Jovians.

suddenly nothing was clear !

[Ché Biko]

Perhaps it could be inferred that routers linked to the routers in those systems have also crashed?

[Lyn Farel]

Or the Scope is lying !

:tinfoil hats:

:ufo noises:

[Kyoko Sakoda]

BREACH THE MAINFRAME seems unlikely.

DDoS works, and it seems plausible, but it also takes time to set up the zombies.

It's conceivable that some routers would accept packets from standard EM signals, which could be harmful, but the probability those packets wouldn't be firewalled is zero.

So basically the only conclusion I can come to that makes any kind of sense is that the Drifters have a backdoor key much like the NSA so desperately wanted Microsoft and Apple to integrate into their operating systems.

 

[Lyn Farel]

Space magics. Not like it was the first time in Eve. vOv

[Elmund Egivand]

BREACH THE MAINFRAME seems unlikely.

DDoS works, and it seems plausible, but it also takes time to set up the zombies.

It's conceivable that some routers would accept packets from standard EM signals, which could be harmful, but the probability those packets wouldn't be firewalled is zero.

So basically the only conclusion I can come to that makes any kind of sense is that the Drifters have a backdoor key much like the NSA so desperately wanted Microsoft and Apple to integrate into their operating systems.

 

Drifters are script kiddies?

And how do you even hack something with no transmission mediums?

[Louella Dougans]

And how do you even hack something with no transmission mediums?

plotanium bulletz

[Morwen Lagann]

And how do you even hack something with no transmission mediums?

The fluid router isn't the start location for a transmission. It's in the middle of the chain. The transmission has to get to the fluid router first - and to its destination terminal or console or whatever after reaching the router closest to its destination. There's plenty of places for a MITM.

[Mizhir]

Use your tech knowledge to make a report about Drifter disruption tech and then send it to CCP. Maybe they can get some use of it

[Aria Jenneth]

Could they just have infected the network at one end of the system, then slammed the fluid routers with high-density traffic? If it could work like that, the only limiting factor would seem to be how fast the infection can spread.

Speed zombification!

[Lyn Farel]

Or they have a way to mess with quantum entanglement particles that looks like magic to us ?

[Kyoko Sakoda]

Could they just have infected the network at one end of the system, then slammed the fluid routers with high-density traffic? If it could work like that, the only limiting factor would seem to be how fast the infection can spread.

Speed zombification!

Yeah, and like Morwen said there's plenty of room for MITM attacks.

It's just that "a signal" makes it sounds like it's an EM broadcast. There is no "there" there between the fluid routers.

So the thing I'm really skeptical about in the end is the limit on how fast the attack can spread.

[Veiki]

Drifters used their mad hax skills to send Jove signals to the non-quantum entangled intranets of the station computer tubes so they could enumerate the network with their leet tunneling protocols and shut down the FTL DNS layers?