I've been thinking about this way more than healthy, because somehow, no one noticed he'd made a change to the base code. I mean, that really makes me wonder about Fleet security.
Likely, he did it virus-style; he knew the language, and possibly even had seen samples of Spock's code, so he wrote in a conditional, when x occurs, switch from current decision tables to his tables, and inserted that into the mainframe. He could probably even disguise the upload to look like a normal update/new build if Spock is the perfectionist I think he is and updates regularly. I mean--I am willing to buy many things, but even if he was sitting at the highest MENSA in the universe, I can't see how he would have had *time* to reverse engineer the whole program enough to make changes to the base code.
But getting through SF security. You know, I am going ot go out on a limb and think that maybe he's been hacking their security since he got there. *G*
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Likely, he did it virus-style; he knew the language, and possibly even had seen samples of Spock's code, so he wrote in a conditional, when x occurs, switch from current decision tables to his tables, and inserted that into the mainframe. He could probably even disguise the upload to look like a normal update/new build if Spock is the perfectionist I think he is and updates regularly. I mean--I am willing to buy many things, but even if he was sitting at the highest MENSA in the universe, I can't see how he would have had *time* to reverse engineer the whole program enough to make changes to the base code.
But getting through SF security. You know, I am going ot go out on a limb and think that maybe he's been hacking their security since he got there. *G*