Evolution through the eyes of a hacker
It has long been known where the road paved with good intentions leads. We have already been frightened many times by the benefits of civilization: nanotechnology, biological research, and of course, artificial intelligence. Science fiction writers literally scream about the threat from the visible and invisible terminators who have escaped from the hands of military and scientists. And of course, the development of the Internet has caused a new wave of predictions about a bleak future. In some scenarios you can take part.
One telecommunications company has developed a way to transmit data packets at speeds greater than the speed of light. Not intending to stop there, they continued to increase speed, which caused instability in the time continuum and packages began to arrive earlier than they were sent. The long-cherished dream of mankind about time travel has come true, if not physical, but at least informational. Moreover, not only data could be transferred to the past, it became possible to execute programs in an infinite number of time slices, which increased the computing power to unimaginable heights. To cope with this situation, an AI was developed that could evolve at a rate of geometric progression. You guessed it, what was then?
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You have to play for the "good" hacker, who was hired to figure out all this mess. At first glance, this game is an ordinary puzzle. True, it is framed, absolutely magical. Cine stereotypes about hackers met with harsh reality and turned into a beautiful interface, but left the command line. All your commands will be typed exactly in the command line. Of course, this is only an abstract simulation, but the spirit of the process is transmitted very well. The basic skills that you need are attentiveness and ingenuity. Perhaps the great experience of the creators of the game ( exosyphen studios ), may be the fact that your arsenal (unix-like shell) is very similar to the real, but maybe it's just luck, but the process does not cause irritation, as often happens in movies about hackers, but on the contrary, unexpectedly delays.
Download Hacker Evolution .
PS There is a version for PocketPC. Linux version is not, oddly enough.
Original on www.puzzled.ru .
One telecommunications company has developed a way to transmit data packets at speeds greater than the speed of light. Not intending to stop there, they continued to increase speed, which caused instability in the time continuum and packages began to arrive earlier than they were sent. The long-cherished dream of mankind about time travel has come true, if not physical, but at least informational. Moreover, not only data could be transferred to the past, it became possible to execute programs in an infinite number of time slices, which increased the computing power to unimaginable heights. To cope with this situation, an AI was developed that could evolve at a rate of geometric progression. You guessed it, what was then?
')
You have to play for the "good" hacker, who was hired to figure out all this mess. At first glance, this game is an ordinary puzzle. True, it is framed, absolutely magical. Cine stereotypes about hackers met with harsh reality and turned into a beautiful interface, but left the command line. All your commands will be typed exactly in the command line. Of course, this is only an abstract simulation, but the spirit of the process is transmitted very well. The basic skills that you need are attentiveness and ingenuity. Perhaps the great experience of the creators of the game ( exosyphen studios ), may be the fact that your arsenal (unix-like shell) is very similar to the real, but maybe it's just luck, but the process does not cause irritation, as often happens in movies about hackers, but on the contrary, unexpectedly delays.
Download Hacker Evolution .
PS There is a version for PocketPC. Linux version is not, oddly enough.
Original on www.puzzled.ru .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/18354/
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