"Personally," Remi says, "fucking up the hardware is the best for a long-term solution. As far as we can tell from examining the Cantata's, tuning a moth harness is a delicate business and if you know enough to mess up certain components, you'd have to pull out the whole thing and get some technician to retune it."
Remi frowns at his coffee. "What we did with the Cantata was short out some of the better-hidden components as well as disabling the software side. There's a dummy program running to make it look like the harness is still functional. A Nirai who knew what to look for could hack the dummy code and, just as importantly, replace the parts we fried. But this seemed like the better compromise given that we didn't know if we might face hostile inspections. If you didn't care about being caught, then of course nuking the harness is easier. Pardon my language."
ETA: Remi pauses for a long while, then adds slowly: "There is one other possibility that has occurred to me. Once freed, you could teach the moth how to break the harness itself in case of further attempts at enslavement. But given that our communication with moths is imperfect and we don't yet know what they want, I wasn't sure you would want to jump to that measure."
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Re: moth harnesses - paging Alaric, Seyli, and Remi
Date: 2018-12-08 01:04 am (UTC)Remi frowns at his coffee. "What we did with the Cantata was short out some of the better-hidden components as well as disabling the software side. There's a dummy program running to make it look like the harness is still functional. A Nirai who knew what to look for could hack the dummy code and, just as importantly, replace the parts we fried. But this seemed like the better compromise given that we didn't know if we might face hostile inspections. If you didn't care about being caught, then of course nuking the harness is easier. Pardon my language."
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Remi pauses for a long while, then adds slowly: "There is one other possibility that has occurred to me. Once freed, you could teach the moth how to break the harness itself in case of further attempts at enslavement. But given that our communication with moths is imperfect and we don't yet know what they want, I wasn't sure you would want to jump to that measure."