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Talk:Cyberpathy
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Hm, I wonder if her power allows her to automatically break cifers, or if she can only read plaintext messages. Unfortunately, I guess the writers don't have a clue and couldn't care less, but being able to read an electronic signal IRL only helps you to do stuff against the cripplingly incompetent. Well, we'll see. -- Cuardin 11:14, 17 January 2007 (EST)
- Well, if she has the ability to read email, that assumes she has the capability to (1) sense electronic transmissions (EM waves) (2) sample the AC to digital in her brain (3) convert all that binary information to 8-bit bytes, and (4) decode the message protocols and/or de-encrypt the content on the fly (boy would the NSA love that). Oh yeah, and be able to do it in reverse, since she can "send text messages". Almost all modern programs have at least some sort of encryption (run-length encoding at the minimum), not to mention the cell phone system itself has quite a few levels. Plus, if she can understand any message in the world, that means she's doing ASCII code value translations (to written language) in her head. After all that, she can still de-obfuscate the language of "leet speak". Maybe it's better if we don't look behind the curtain :) --Orne 12:04, 17 January 2007 (EST)