Return Trip
19 Jan 2022Iridium Nova
Finally decided to head back to the bubble. It's been nice, but life away from civilization can be dull. And I've got a nice haul of exploration data to sell. I've occasionally checked my decryptors, just to see if they could pull anything else out of those files. It's mostly just a lot of fragmented stuff, junk for the most part. By now all of those files have expired and have been deleted. For those of you who aren't familiar with temporal security, it's a common technique which involves encrypted compression. It's quite complicated, but the gist of it is that sensitive files are essentially designed to corrupt themselves over time. To keep the files useable, they must have contact with a security control network, which basically refreshes them on a regular basis. If the files are copied to another system, they start to self-corrupt, unless you open your network to the security control system they are linked to, which is the equivalent of wearing a flashing red light and screaming "come arrest me!". It's a slow process, but then so is decryption. It's more of a fallback, the idea being that if a hacker defeats all the proper security, at least they won't be able to access the entirety of the files they get.The time away has been pretty undemanding on my systems, so they were able to work pretty efficiently. The fragments aren't terribly interesting but I did manage to piece together some nice bits:
"INRA got it. They mentioned something about Krauze Alchemy. Whatever that is." - snippet of correspondence, taken from one of those files I got ahold of when I was doing errands for Stardreamer.
"Rockforth had a bigger part in it than most think. This isn't the first time they've tried to silence the media." - this fragment was from an old data archive in Grebegus, on a completely different server than the one I was actually after. So, it's probably nothing, but whenever Rockforth is up to no good it can lead to a payday for people in a position to take advantage.
"Did you ever wonder where the original mycoid came from? I mean, did INRA just come up with it on their own, or did they get the idea from somewhere else?" - from the base on Ariel. I wouldn't have even considered it except it mentions INRA. But it's probably not relevant.
Now that I've had a nice vacation, I might be able to muster up the will to go digging again. I know it always gets me in trouble, but damnit, I can't deny my brown-nosing nature.