CI Mind Tech

[HRogge]

SOTS are one thing, but the synthesis? The possibilities make my skin crawl. Sure, it's only granting skills at this point, but... Geeze. My heads spinning. From there, it's a hop and a skip implanting memories.

*grin* (mission accomplished)

Some of which may be carried over un-intentionally anyway, especially with an entirely unfamiliar language being transplanted in. Just getting context and understanding to go along with the vocabulary and pronunciation could add 'color'. Fragments of lessons, and word assosciations, I'd think. Some of which might 'blur' over time, now that I think about it. Your own 'mastery' of the dialect affecting those associations and overpowering them... Come to think of it, until you really practiced it alot, it could sound really creepy to someone without those implanted memories, at first anyway. The exact same vocabulary, speaking skill, understanding of the language, and word association all rolled together would make everybody soun similar. Until they really bothered to use the language anyway. 'Breaking in' those new memories should encourage diversification pretty quickly.

It took a lot of research and experiments to make something useful of the technology... there are also some tricks involved, maybe some of them will appear in a future story.

Also, Dartz brings up a good point. Cybers are going to incredibly interested in this piece of tech, and what it represents. Beyond the incredibly creepy bits, anyway.

Catgirl Industries is very well aware that most Fen will find this more than a little bit creepy... thats why they told NOONE about their usage of it (beyond the SOTS development). But in the end, it got out...

Have I mentioned that some of things behind this tech really creep me out? Because they do.

It opens a can of problems...

May I mention that Catgirl Industries have two 'forks' among their catgirls in 2020? Fork as in 'copy of another catgirl'?

That is, in a sense, the big abuse. A group of Boskonians was using the tech (over wireless signals, using an exploit) to basically "hide" a location from a Cyber patrol. Although that required an insider to plant the exploit in the first place. Even when it's pointed out, any affected Cyber had a hard time telling exactly which points the memories had been edited. And yes, it should make your skin crawl, especially knowing that aspect of it.

That is what the whole SOTs development was about... finding a way to see a difference between sets of memories from different sources. And even after 5 years of development, its still not completely reliable if the manipulation was prepared and done with a lot of effort.

This is the sort of thing that persuades you to have encrypted personality backups, on write-once media, stored in multiple locations where you don't know some of the locations, just how to go about retrieving a copy.

Apart from the squick factor you can see this as an information security problem: you don't want unauthorised people accessing the data, you don't want unauthorised people changing the data, you want to ensure you can get at the original data yourself. If you substitute 'personality/ experiences' for 'data'...

Yes, CI is aware of this problem... and its hard to deal with it, especially because most encryption algorithms are breakable in Fenspace. Onetime pad and Shamirs Secret Sharing Scheme are useful tools in an environment like this.

You need friends, enough and well enough distributed that you can be pretty sure they wont all be subverted at the same time, hopefully the majority will be OK.

Exactly.