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Impossible technology?

posted 10 years ago by dhinged
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Burke explained Ice 9 as a virus that can infect computers through a power cable... I've read that it's possible to transmit data across power lines but I didn't think a computer could process that data through a power cable. True?

Also, the bio-bug seemed a little improbable; it can pick up and transmit audio and video through something the size and thickness of a small round band-aid?

I also thought it was funny that Burke shot the laptop screen, which would not prevent the laptop from running.

[–] DruzeTito 10 years ago

Yea unless they made power supplies that interface with data IO on the motherboard that isn't possible with today's pcs.

[–] wakedemons3 9 years ago

It's theoretically possible. If that's what you're asking. Power and data are all just electrons moving across a medium (fiber, coax, twisted pair, copper, etc). It doesn't exist as far as we know right now though.

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[–] geearf 8 years ago

Well we do have the ability to have LANs based only on powercircuits... so I guess we're there.
It just seems bleak with most of the network that will be either WiFi (so unsecure) or rj45..

[–] chilone 7 years ago

I think that was the point. Burke "introduced" him to new and different technology that the world hadn't hear of at that point.

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