Something that keeps popping up in my mind when thinking about all that happened, is something that got uncovered by that data breach in 2045:
In 2045, a crowdsourced investigation of the Zhupao data breach uncovered technical specifications for the withering process that renders G6 data unusable when disconnected from the larger network. Analysis of the specifications revealed that the process is patterned on misfolding proteins, with an initial corruption triggered when a G6 node is taken offline or its owner-actor verification is revoked, and then cascading across the disconnected data. Five of Swords (FoS) has challenged Zhupao’s claims that continuous connectivity is required for encryption, alleging that the corruption process is not unlike “flicking a switch.”
This information was online on 2049/10/07 at the Global Secure Information Exchange System site, but got removed the day after. (not vanished tho)
All information about A-DIRA is gone, but thanks to this Thread → ADIRA is a what now?! - #6 by hexnuts we do know, that
the pathology of ADIRA is linked to misfolding IL-1RA proteins, which are synthesised by colloids to prevent their electrodes from causing brain tissue inflammation. Muren attributed the misfolding to errors in the bioreactors used by colloids to express surface proteins, resulting from Hagen using unvetted language models to generate IL-1RA protein sequences while claiming to have licensed verified AlphaFold sequences.
If I understand this correctly, it does say that it causes (or may cause) A-DIRA, when a G6 node is taken offline or its owner-actor verification is revoked.
(I think I remember Zhupao revoking the G6 owner-actor verification of the PLA when the CBIRC put a stop to their stock trading. Zhupao only reinstated the verification after the CCP announced it would order the CBIRC to lift the block. Sounds like a death threat now. But sadly I can’t find the information in Omnipedia anymore, so maybe I remeber that wrong.)
Anyway, the point I’m thinking about is how the underground detonation Efrim is involved in caused a local G6 outage. I wonder how long the outage lasted and if anyone got in danger due to their colloids being disconnected.
Still so many other mystieries unsolved, I keep coming back to all of this and trying to wrap my head around too many things at the same time.