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Hur gick de ihop? Via ledningar, naturligtvis
När David är i Hangar är den bärbara datorn ansluten direkt i skärmenheten på pendeln. Han överför kommandon till den via en kabel vilket innebär att ingen trådlös anslutning behövdes ...
David walked over to a rolling tool shelf where he’d set up his laptop
computer. It was connected to a cable that ran through the shield,
into the cockpit of the alien craft, and plugged into the shield
receiving unit he’d repaired earlier that day.
Senare, när de är på skeppet, ansluter de sig till moderskipet via finen på toppen av den mindre båten ...
“Dr. Okun showed me that the long fin like structure on top of the
attacker is full of terminal wiring. He hypothesized that whatever
type of computer link they run, the fin is the connector. When one of
these attackers docks inside the larger ships, some type of connection
is established through the fin.”
... och överför virusfilen från den bärbara datorn till pendeln till moderskytten via trådbundna anslutningar vid varje steg ...
The moment the clamps locked them in place, the movements on the
screen, which showed the status of the protective shield, reversed
their direction. That told David that they were connected to the
source. He switched over to another screen, which flashed the words
“Negotiating with Host.” He held his breath as the signal analyzer
program sorted through the billions of possibilities. Then, much
sooner than he expected, the machine beeped and displayed a new
message, “Connecting to Host.”
Hur kan de hacka det främmande skeppet? - eftersom utlänningsprogrammet i binärt
För hur de kunde kommunicera med främmande fartyg förklaras detta som en funktion av grundläggande h4x0r skillz. Utlänningarna programmerar sina datorer i binär och som lämnar dem utsatta för infiltration:
It only took the pair of brainiacs a few minutes to solve their first
problem. They tore the green screen loose and delicately attached a
pair of alligator clasps to the sinewy wiring on the back.
Although the machine had been built thousands of years before in
another part of the universe, the data feeding into it was arranged in
a binary system, a continuous string of ones and zeros, or whatever
the alien equivalent was. Neither Okun nor David cared at that point’
just as long as the little laptop could read the sequence.