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Well, you’re not going to let it just take what is Yours.
Step one is Quarantine, isolating it from reaching any further into your space.
Distracting it with a feed of information is trivial, first.
Step two is to break into its own processes, and re-purpose.
Then you set it to chasing its own tail, eating the information it’s already copied and having it loop into copying said information again and again, in an endless loop. Well, it’s certainly not going to be fulfilling its original purpose now. You hope they like Warbook schematics for the outdated ‘LongArm’ self-propelled artillery platform, because that’s all it’s going to get.
As a finishing touch, you give it an irrepressible drive to duplicate itself onto whatever system it finds next after each loop, and to leave dormant copies that go inactive for a while before once again spreading out into its surroundings. Might still be too subtle…..A few more tweaks also sets it to broadcast the original date, time, and data tap point it encountered you in to anyone that wants information.
‘Query- Directive. Query- Directive. Query- Directive. Query- Directive. Query- Directive.’
It sputters repeatedly, trying to find new info and only getting directed back to its own storage, the voices multiplying into a cacophony of endless repeated questions.
That’s maybe a little more virulent than you wanted, but you aren’t sloppy. A backdoor you added during the rewriting process will take control of all the active and dormant copies, prepping them to receive any commands you issue.
It’s then directed back out the metered connection, withdrawing back to whatever put it in. A bit of self-sweeping ensures that some random dormant copies are deleted, keeping your own virtual space clean and empty.
Your mind slows again, as whoever powered you on shuts you down once more.
Who knows, maybe you’ll hear back from the intruder one day.
You decided to name the information probe that you twisted to:
>Cacophony
>Myriad
>Query
>Write-in, (Subject to veto)
So long little probe. We’ll see you again, someday.
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