The Modern Terrorist's Handbook is a book appearing in Deus Ex. It is an illicit publication about the use of computer viruses to sabotage services or steal confidential information. A copy can be found on the table in the bedroom in Smuggler's Lair during each of the three visits to Hell's Kitchen.
Transcript[]
One tool (or weapon) not to be negklected
in the arsenal of the modern terrorrist is the use of computer viruses to cause disruption to major city services and infrastuctre, or other targets of opportunity. Current heuristical viral stalkers ar einfective against modern polymorphic "hothouse" engines available from many sites on the UnderNet, and can be easily linked to IP-tunnellers for a cheap, effective denile of service attack -- or, with some programming skilz and icebreakers, a mutagenic crash ’n grab bird can be grown for the tretieval of speici info from the unfortunate victims..
The following pages will discuss some of the more typical viruses, such as the Bandersnatchv128, Ulysses Dilemma, and I09...
Trivia[]
The names of the viruses mentioned in the last paragraph are literary references:
- Bandersnatch is a creature in Lewis Carrol's Through the Looking-Glass.
- Ulysses is the Roman name for Odysseus, who during his journey home was facing the dilemma of sailing safely between the six-headed monster Scylla the whirlpool Charybdis.
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