"FWLS36" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"Good. Now, if you don't access the net through a neural
link, how can you access it?"

"I don't know."

Gosub paused, and considered this. He went back to hooking
up the toy, and continued. "Alright, I'll put it bluntly. With
ancient toys that are rigged with VOS program links, I can
emulate a login with a keyboard and glove."

"A glove? Fashion comes into this?"

"Haven't you studied your history? Back then, people used
gloves and helmets and vacuum-suction underwear and toys like
that. So, I'm logged into the net, but I'm just controlling a
human-like probe program, seeing what it sees on the TV,
controlling what it does with the glove... ice sees me, tries the
default mind scrambler..."

"And doesn't find a mind attached!"

"Give the boy a prize!" Gosub applauded, finishing his
connections. "By the time the ice knows what's going on, my
'toy' has burned it to the virtual ground. It's not fast, it's
not precise, but it's just as deadly as any online hacker."

"How... HOW did you come up with this?"

"Oh... did it in my spare time. I got out of the hacking
scene for awhile, went back to school to add an engineering
degree to my physics one. I got the idea one night when I was in
an antique shop. That's not the funny bit, though."

"I'll bite. What's the funny bit?"

"You can use just about anything to hack with," he said,
turning off the box. "I tried first with some old neurostim for
the optics only, and an early 21st century bodysuit. The ice
recognized it somewhat fast, though, and melted the gear down.
It works in a ratio... the lower the tech, the slower the
response, but the harder to use. I ran a few experiments, and
found that the Nintekji is the best balance of the three. With
the right interface, I could hack into the net on a crummy five-
credit pocket calculator."

"Yeah, but how good would a calculator be at hacking?"

"Lousy. I tried," he smirked. "But it is possible."

Gosub took a nearby cup of coffee off the worktable, and sat