Labels:text | book | publication | paper | font | number OCR: INVERSE FOR CHOUDERHEADS CHAPTER 14 Despite the heartbreaking stories of unrecoverable code PLAGUE EATERS and bankrupt start-ups, the Volatile Area Reformat is the single-most important defense in the never-ending battle Plague Eaters are as old as the Verse itself. Jake Elliot, against Retro-Infection. If an area has gone so viral as to the original VerseWare Architect at MacroSoft (and the be unsalvageable, a conscientious inverse -arca first mind lost to the Corwin Brainworm) was rumoured administrator can "call in the napalm". Every piece of to have cranked out the code for the Plague Eater code caught in the insuing "firestorm" is erased, written prototype while beating Corwin himself in a Saturday over and erased again. In addition, the nepalm will afternoon game of speed chess. It is believed that the follow recent CopyPointers to code replicated to outside Elliot Plague Eater was the first anti-viral virus ever storage, (for example your own Inverse Drive). This successfully engineered. way, possibly infected files in machines all over world will also "go down in flames". Unfortunately, the Surgeon General has recently published a report linking the Plague Eater virus to the What this means for the average Chowderhead is, "RUN highly publicized Post-Inverse Attention Span Disorder. AWAY!". Don't ever get caught in a napalm reformat. It seems that Plague Eater 2.1 is unable to discern the Any and all verse-ware you have compiled will be difference between retro-infections in low level completely unrecoverable. Your creations, your Verseware and retro-infections in low level Wetware. investments, even your face and avatar cosmetics will The self replicating 2.1 is literally erasing the synapses of have to be recreated or repurchased. Inverse hackers who have spent too much time exposed to retro-infected low level Verseware. 557 558