Sasha displays the summary page of Xiulan's report on one of the conference
room screens. Sulen's lists aren't hard to find; she displays those as well.
"Just wiping the base grid would take about half a shift. But that would
still leave clues about when and where we're from, and how many people were
present. It might be possible for someone to recover our files, though
they'd still have to decrypt them. It would be better to overwrite the
nodes a few million times with junk data, where we can't arrange their
physical recovery or destruction. Of course, at that point we'll see
significant degradation of the base's capability." Sasha grins at her own
understatement. "We have a tradeoff between speed and noise, here--say
another half shift to a shift if we're quick, and if we aren't worried that
something out there might notice the nodes grinding away."
"The other tradeoff is the moths." She holds Ashari's eye contact, though
it might be more accurate to say she doesn't know how to look away, not
when the stakes are this high. "We don't know much about the moth
predators. The Cantata says the moths wondered why their enemies
aren't seen in the heptarchate, though I doubt they would have heard about
a ship lost here or there. It's possible that alert moths seem tastier. But
a moth that is awake can sense predators, and run. The Cantata says
they're faster than the things that eat them. We should unharness the moths
on the Typhoon and Sedulous Eel, as soon as we can."
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Re: the meeting proper - paging everyone
Date: 2020-02-28 10:39 pm (UTC)Sasha displays the summary page of Xiulan's report on one of the conference room screens. Sulen's lists aren't hard to find; she displays those as well.
"Just wiping the base grid would take about half a shift. But that would still leave clues about when and where we're from, and how many people were present. It might be possible for someone to recover our files, though they'd still have to decrypt them. It would be better to overwrite the nodes a few million times with junk data, where we can't arrange their physical recovery or destruction. Of course, at that point we'll see significant degradation of the base's capability." Sasha grins at her own understatement. "We have a tradeoff between speed and noise, here--say another half shift to a shift if we're quick, and if we aren't worried that something out there might notice the nodes grinding away."
"The other tradeoff is the moths." She holds Ashari's eye contact, though it might be more accurate to say she doesn't know how to look away, not when the stakes are this high. "We don't know much about the moth predators. The Cantata says the moths wondered why their enemies aren't seen in the heptarchate, though I doubt they would have heard about a ship lost here or there. It's possible that alert moths seem tastier. But a moth that is awake can sense predators, and run. The Cantata says they're faster than the things that eat them. We should unharness the moths on the Typhoon and Sedulous Eel, as soon as we can."