boreas@bu.edu.UUCP (09/26/87)
In article <3948@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> you write: > >I read Neuromancer this summer - I never did understand the ICE reference. >Integrated Circuits? > >Could someone illuminate this for me? I'm sure other people had the same >question. > >gary cottrell You must've missed a page! From my New Ace Specials edition, p.28 (Armitage chats with Case in Armitage's hotel room): "You're a console cowboy. The prototypes of the programs you use to grack industrial banks were developed for Screaming Fist. For the assault on the Kirensk computer nexus. Basic module was a Nightwing microlight, a pilot, a matrix deck, a jockey. We were running a virus called Mole. The Mole series was the first generation of real intrusion programs." "Icebreakers," Case said, over the rim of the red mug. ** "Ice from ICE, intrusion countermeasures electronics." "Problem is, mister, I'm no jockey now, so I think I'll just be going. . . ." "I was there, Case; I was there when they invented your kind." ICE was the hardware/software that detected a data pirate and tried to wipe out his brain ("black ice", and McCoy Pauley's braindeath.) And also, from the end note: MY THANKS to Bruce Sterling, to Lewis Shiner, to John Shirley, Helden. And to Tom Maddox, the inventor of ICE. And to the others, who know why. (The word "Helden" was in italics, I don't know why.) I'd appreciate it if you would post this reply; I don't have post-access at the moment, else I would. (Our SA shut down posting from the student VAX to allow new users some reading time before they jump in (and bellyflop).) I'd really like to know who Tom Maddox is. . . . Any idea? -- Michael Justice. -- - Michael Justice. BITNet: cscj0ac@bostonu \"Perhaps it was a result of anxiety." --_Mad_Max_ CSNET: boreas%bucsb@bu-cs \ When I was little, my parents forced me to ARPA: boreas@bucsb.bu.edu \ take piano lessons. I rebelled, though. UUCP: ...!husc6!bu-cs!bucsb!boreas \ So now, I just play the keyboard. . . .