"Cory Doctorow - I robot" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

cars owned by teenagers near Goderich. All modifications were made at the same garage. These
modifications allowed these children to operate their vehicles unsafely so that they could participate in
drag racing events on major highways during off-hours. This is the result. Twenty-two fatalities, nine
major injuries. Three minors тАФ besides the drivers тАФ killed, and one pregnant woman.

"We've shut down the garage and taken those responsible into custody, but it doesn't matter. The
Eurasians deliberately manufacture their components to interoperate with UNATS Robotics brains, and
so long as their equipment circulates within UNATS borders, there will be moderately skilled hackers
who take advantage of this fact to introduce dangerous, anti-social modifications into our nation's
infrastructure.

"This quarter is the quarter that Social Harmony and law enforcement dry up the supply of Eurasian
electronics. We have added new sniffers and border-patrols, new customs agents and new detector vans.
Beat officers have been instructed to arrest any street dealer they encounter and district attorneys will be
asking for the maximum jail time for them. This is the war on the home-front, detectives, and it's every
bit as serious as the shooting war.

"Your part in this war, as highly trained, highly decorated detectives, will be to use snitches, arrest-trails
and seized evidence to track down higher-level suppliers, the ones who get the dealers their goods. And
then Social Harmony wants you to get their suppliers, and so on, up the chain тАФ to run the corruption to
ground and to bring it to a halt. The Social Harmony dossier on Eurasian importers is updated hourly,
and has a high-capacity positronic interface that is available to answer your questions and accept your
input for synthesis into its analytical model. We are relying on you to feed the dossier, to give it the raw
materials and then to use it to win this war."

The Social Harmony man paged through more atrocity slides, scenes from the home-front: poisoned
buildings with berserk life-support systems, violent kung-fu movies playing in the background in crack-
houses, then kids playing sexually explicit, violent arcade games imported from Japan. Arturo's hand
twitched toward his mobile. What was Ada up to now?

The meeting drew to a close and Arturo risked looking at his mobile under the table. R. Peed Robbert
had checked in five more times, shadowing Ada around the mall and then had fallen silent. Arturo
cursed. Fucking robots were useless. Social Harmony should be hunting down UNATS Robotics
products, too.

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The Social Harmony man cleared his throat meaningfully. Arturo put the phone away. "Detective Icaza
de Arana-Goldberg?"

"Sir," he said, gathering up his personal computer so that he'd have an excuse to go тАФ no one could be
expected to hold one of UNATS Robotics's heavy luggables for very long.

The Social Harmony man stepped in close enough that Arturo could smell the eggs and coffee on his
breath. "I hope we haven't kept you from anything important, detective."

"No, sir," Arturo said, shifting the computer in his arms. "My apologies. Just monitoring a tail from an R