Fire and Iron

[Unseelie]

"Dieterville, what does a .kill algorithm do?"

Deiterville was busy, extremely so. The ship was operational, and it was his jobs to filter off about a thousand digital attacks an hour. Most didn't make it past the rotating encryption strings or the elucidate function, but right now he was struggling against a rather tenacious virtual worm that was chewing through the actuator control sequences. Damn thing wrote itself with larger blocks of binary than was standard, and so hid from the search function...like a book with letters made from piles of books, it couldn't be found from ground level in the library.
"What?... oh... a .kill kills things...usually used to euthanize..."

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