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Oh happy joy! I managed to stay alive another year in good health. Today I turned 33 years old and (as Graham Cluley would say) still not have grown up.

To celebrate this with you, I give you the source code of one of my recent replicators (including virus). Can you figure out in which environment this program is able to run? I will soon elaborate more on the environment this code runs in and hope to interest you in writing some code as well.

Hint for AV'ers: you can't write a disinfector for this!

Published  Name        RTFM   
Published  Author      Rajaat                
Published  EMail       rajaat.itookmyprozac@gmail.com
Published  Country     The Netherlands   
Published  Comment     Birthday Release
Published  Version     0.5

Published  OpenSource  yes    
Published  Language    RC300
Published  OptionSet   Classic

Bank 01 BootUp
  BJump 30,1

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Bank 18 Virus
  Trans 1,1
  Trans 1,2
  Trans 1,3
  Turn 1

Bank 19 UniversalJumper
  BJump #Active,1

Bank 20 QuickDisabler
@QuickDisabler.Run
  Move
  Comp %Active,2
  Set %Active,0
  Comp %Banks,0
  Turn 1
  Jump @QuickDisabler.Run

Bank 21 QuickRunner
@QuickRunner.Move
  Move
@QuickRunner.Run
  Scan #2
  Comp #2,1
  Jump @QuickRunner.NoNME
@QuickRunner.KillAllBanks
  Trans 5,1
  Set %Active,0
  Set #3,%Banks
@QuickRunner.Empty
  Trans 4,#3
  Sub #3,1
  Comp #3,-1
  Jump @QuickRunner.Empty
  Set %Active,1
  Jump @QuickRunner.Move
@QuickRunner.NoNME
  Comp #2,2
  Jump @QuickRunner.Move
  Set %Active,2
  Turn 1
  Jump @QuickRunner.Run

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Bank 25 SpawnQuickDisabler
  Create 2,3,0
  Trans 1,1
  Set %Active,2
  Trans 2,2
  Trans 3,3
  Turn 0
@SpawnQuickDisabler.Create
  Create 0,1,1
  Trans 3,1
  Set %Active,2
  Jump @SpawnQuickDisabler.Create

Bank 26 SpawnQuickRunner
  Create 2,5,0
  Trans 4,1
  Set %Active,2
  Trans 2,2
  Trans 3,3
  Trans 4,4
  Trans 5,5
  Turn 0
@SpawnQuickRunner.Create
  Create 1,5,1
  Trans 4,1
  Set %Active,2
  Trans 3,2
  Trans 4,3
  Trans 5,5
  Jump @SpawnQuickRunner.Create

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Bank 30 InitialBoot
  Set #Active,2
@InitialBoot.Create

  ; Create SpawnQuickDisabler
  Create 2,3,0
  Trans 19,1
  Set %Active,2
  Trans 25,2
  Trans 20,3
  Turn 0

  ; Create SpawnQuickKiller
  Create 2,5,0
  Trans 19,1
  Set %Active,2
  Trans 26,2
  Trans 21,3
  Trans 19,4
  Trans 18,5
  Turn 0

  Add #19,1
  Comp #19,4
  Jump @InitialBoot.Create

  BJump 31,@Phase2Boot.KillNeighbours

Bank 31 Phase2Boot
@Phase2Boot.KillNeighbours
  Set %Active,1
  Trans 32,2
  Trans 32,1
  Create 2,12,0
  Trans 33,10
  Trans 19,1
  Set %Active,10
  Trans 19,1
  Trans 32,11
  Trans 19,9
  Trans 18,8
  Turn 0
  Jump @Phase2Boot.KillNeighbours

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  Die

Bank 33 HugeStar
@HugeStar.Scan
  Turn 1
  Scan #2
  Comp #2,1
  Jump @HugeStar.NoNME
@HugeStar.Kill
  Trans 8,1
  Trans 8,2
  Trans 8,3
  Set %Active,0
  Set #4,%Banks
@HugeStar.EmptyIt
  Trans 11,#4
  Sub #4,1
  Comp #4,-1
  Jump @HugeStar.EmptyIt
  Set %Active,1
  Jump @HugeStar.Scan
@HugeStar.NoNME  
  Comp #2,0
  Jump @HugeStar.Refresh
  Create 2,12,0
  Trans 10,10
  Trans 9,1
  Set %Active,10
  Trans 9,1
  Trans 11,11
  Trans 9,9
  Trans 8,8
  Jump @HugeStar.Scan
@HugeStar.Refresh
  Trans 11,1
  Trans 11,2
  Trans 10,10
  Trans 9,9
  Trans 8,8
  Set %Active,10
  Jump @HugeStar.Scan

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Pink Mika on the hunt for warez?

F-Secure has posted on its weblog an article about the disclaimer on www.elitehackers.com (just google on "You must be at least 250 years old and own a pink car to enter this site.", directly cut and paste from the weblog). It leaves me with a few questions...

Who is Mika? (His face is not on the banner on top of the page)
Is he gay? (A pink car... and apparently not photoshopped)
And what is he doing on EliteHackers in the first place???

Should I get an evaluation copy of their product and search if they used some hacked version of Sound Forge for alarm sounds or some graphics processing utility?

Anyway... Mika, should you read this, the only way to be able to legally access EliteHackers is when you are an ocean worm, but then I doubt wether you can drive a pink car.

Back from the dead...

Ok, I'm back from holidays and somehow managed to survive. I've been to the Czech Republic during easter, and where I was (near Brno) it is custom on easter Monday to whip the girls with a "pomlazka", and in return you get an egg and some shot of hard spirit (usually slivovice). Needless to say that I was completely drunk even before noon. I also have been meeting a few of my girlfriends friends and Benny.

My idle time I spent reading "Quicksilver" from Neal Stephenson and I am really impressed about his improvement on writing style since "Snowcrash". He manages to weave fiction and history seamlessly into a huge novel, and I can recommend his books (especially Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver) to anyone that has an interest in how we got into this digital era we now live in. I've put the next parts (The Confusion and System of the World) on my wishlist.

Excerpt from Cryptonomicon
Excerpt from Quicksilver