Drive-By Downloads: Science Fiction
Feb. 15th, 2010 09:17 amThe danger of drive-by downloads made most synced people stay out of the Downbelow Zone, but most synced people didn't have the security suite that she did, and most of them hadn't spent a previous life making drive-by download programs themselves. She wasn't worried about anything they could come up with--she'd be awfully impressed if somebody did something that would even require her syncdrive to notify her, and so impressed she might offer to have the hacker's baby if something was a serious enough threat to make her engage her quarantine protocol.
Inspiration: Was trying to get a random website to use for inspiration, and antivirus warned me away from that website because of "drive-by downloads."
Story Potential: High.
Notes: More setting than story, but I like the extrapolation. If eventually there are people fully connected and communicating digitally with everything around them, it makes sense that there would be no-go zones in reality for the same reason there are online.
Inspiration: Was trying to get a random website to use for inspiration, and antivirus warned me away from that website because of "drive-by downloads."
Story Potential: High.
Notes: More setting than story, but I like the extrapolation. If eventually there are people fully connected and communicating digitally with everything around them, it makes sense that there would be no-go zones in reality for the same reason there are online.