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Every participant of the network has to have a so-called {{w|IP address}}. The data is divided into ''packets'', each consisting of a header and the payload. The header tells the transmitting parties where the packet comes from and where it should go (together with some other details). The payload is the data to be transmitted. | Every participant of the network has to have a so-called {{w|IP address}}. The data is divided into ''packets'', each consisting of a header and the payload. The header tells the transmitting parties where the packet comes from and where it should go (together with some other details). The payload is the data to be transmitted. | ||
− | IP packets | + | [[Black Hat]] (and other statisticians) are using demographics as IP packets to send data. In order to adjust the death rate to encode the header, Black Hat plans to travel to New Jersey and go on a killing spree with a crossbow, instead of merely hacking the census bureau's computers. Such antics could only be used to ''increase'' the death rate, decreasing it would require saving lives instead, as mentioned in the title text. Also as mentioned, birth rates would be trickier to manipulate as doing so would require encouraging or discouraging women to have children and would require an approximately nine-month delay, which is a great deal more difficult than taking a crossbow to a heavily populated area. |
− | [[ | + | Crossbows were also mentioned in [[564: Crossbows]]. |
− | + | The title of the comic and the IPoD protocol is a probable reference to the {{w|iPod}}, a portable electronic device created by {{w|Apple Inc}}. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Black Hat sits at a computer. Cueball stands behind | + | :[Black Hat sits at a computer. Cueball stands behind Black Hat.] |
:Black Hat: You see, statisticians communicate using IPoD -- IP over Demographics. For example, the header of the next packet I send will be encoded into the New Jersey death rate. | :Black Hat: You see, statisticians communicate using IPoD -- IP over Demographics. For example, the header of the next packet I send will be encoded into the New Jersey death rate. | ||
:Cueball: So you're going to hack the census bureau and change the number of reported deaths? | :Cueball: So you're going to hack the census bureau and change the number of reported deaths? |