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May I inquire as to how the term 'sensitive data' is determined, either by the Foundation or by the virus?
You can inquire, but I doubt the Foundation's going to tell you anything. More seriously - for the organism itself it's a kind of dietary sense, in much the same way we might crave dark green leafy things or ice cream. For the Foundation, it's things they don't want anyone to see. Being the Foundation, that's just about everything.
And it's not a virus.
So is the organism smart enough to understand relevent data and understand that it is sensitive? Or does data that others feel is sensitive just 'taste' better to it?
Orik, you could mention that heavy encryption, firewalls, high density data, and so on are more "nutritious" for SCP-560, just so there is no implication that this electronic organism has some ability to know what someone considers secrete or sensitive in some psychic manner. That is unless it is able to piece together context and know what is most likely to be pulled off the hard-drive before it is done eating.
This seems rather useful for the Foundation. "Hey, guys, we just pulled in this electronic SCP, oh, and did we mention it eats data, so we can use it to wipe all our shit if needs be."
That sounds great! What is the drawback?
"Well it will use all that data to reproduce and evolve through generations wildly, what could go wrong?"
You know what, we'll stick with the twenty five thousand nukes fallback, thanks.
I love the notes at the end - I don't know what they're implying, but it can't be anything good. +1.
I agree!
I wonder what a VR game corrupted by the organism would look like.
I just wish there were more examples of what this "corruption" actually does.
I have some other animated GIFs I was going to use. They don't have as much visual weight as the black triangle, though.
This one works plenty well. Somehow, the idea that it can be mistaken for natural video warping is… disturbing…
What I'd like to know is why viewing the corrupted images under the circumstances listed is prohibited? Or what it could possibly do to a human brain, being a high-capacity information-storage device/processor in essence…
I think a [DATA CORRUPT] tag would really shine here. Maybe replacing a [REDACTED] tag.
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Rather than administer amnesiacs, Foundation personnel removed SCP-560 and allowed the board to continue their project. The message board recently celebrated the ██th anniversary of investigation into SCP-560.
Given the recent [REDACTED], any leak of information pertaining to SCP-560 is punishable by summary termination.
Very contradictory. Huge potential security breach; seriously doubt the research potential of the board is worth the risk.
My interpretation: The board don't have access to 560 any more. The foundation relied on their conspiracy-theorist nature to cause them to cover the trail themselves, by linking thoroughly irrelevant things together into a single narrative; at this point their information is so far from accurate as to be irrelevant.
(account deleted)Not only the idea is awesome, that image is also creepy as hell. I want it as my pc desktop.
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