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Yah, but worked because the aliens used the humans satelite network against them, to comunicate with their fleet. Since they where interfacing with out tech, m

Yah, but worked because the aliens used the humans satelite network against them, to comunicate with their fleet. Since they where interfacing with out tech, makes sense to use this against them.

b112 2y ago
That's like saying a C64 virus could work against a Linux box, because a C64 modem was used to control the C64. And as the virus author, you've never seen Linux, have no idea about anything past the C64, including bioses, CPU structure, APIs, PCI/etc architecture, and all other computing hardware, and? That's being friendly, because they'd be interfacing with computing systems hundreds, thousands, or millions of years more advanced, written by aliens, which view the universe entirely differently due to different brain structures, with an unknown number or type of senses, with an unknown way those senses work or are perceived, with "code" not necessarily in binary, or using silicon based chips, or even transistors, or.. well, this part never ends. The premise is immensely absurd. Of course it is a movie, but this sort of canon puts it into soft scifi, if not fantasy.
- DEADMINCE 2y ago
  If you go with the logic of the deleted scene, it's like asking if an 80s programmer with no knowledge of modern hardware or software could still make a virus that would infect modern systems, which makes it significantly easier to swallow.
- basementcat 2y ago
  Both the Commodore model 1670 modem and recent Android phones support Hayes AT commands. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity18/sec18-tian.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/oserial.html http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/oserial.html
- major505 2y ago
  NO but a virus made for a linux box that was programed in a c64 could work.

Yah, but worked because the aliens used the humans satelite network against them, to comunicate with their fleet. Since they where interfacing with out tech, makes sense to use this against them.

b112 2y ago

That's like saying a C64 virus could work against a Linux box, because a C64 modem was used to control the C64. And as the virus author, you've never seen Linux, have no idea about anything past the C64, including bioses, CPU structure, APIs, PCI/etc architecture, and all other computing hardware, and? That's being friendly, because they'd be interfacing with computing systems hundreds, thousands, or millions of years more advanced, written by aliens, which view the universe entirely differently due to different brain structures, with an unknown number or type of senses, with an unknown way those senses work or are perceived, with "code" not necessarily in binary, or using silicon based chips, or even transistors, or.. well, this part never ends. The premise is immensely absurd. Of course it is a movie, but this sort of canon puts it into soft scifi, if not fantasy.

DEADMINCE 2y ago
If you go with the logic of the deleted scene, it's like asking if an 80s programmer with no knowledge of modern hardware or software could still make a virus that would infect modern systems, which makes it significantly easier to swallow.
basementcat 2y ago
Both the Commodore model 1670 modem and recent Android phones support Hayes AT commands. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity18/sec18-tian.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/oserial.html http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/oserial.html
major505 2y ago
NO but a virus made for a linux box that was programed in a c64 could work.