https://apm.bplaced.net/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Direct_physical_hacking_attacksDirect physical hacking attacks - Revision history2026-04-20T12:01:42ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.0https://apm.bplaced.net/w/index.php?title=Direct_physical_hacking_attacks&diff=12367&oldid=prevApm: basic page2022-02-07T17:24:37Z<p>basic page</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><br />
Also "malicious microbots for direct physical hacking attacks".<br />
<br />
== Resilience against natural physical attack (viruses, bacteria, fungi, ...) ==<br />
<br />
One awesome (or horrible depending on your perspective) property of products of [[gem-gum technology]] is that <br />
it pretty much does not weather or biodegrade, unless deliberately designed too e.g. by using water dissolvable gemstones.<br />
<br />
There are no biological organisms that can degrade things like diamond <br />
and thee likely will never evolve such organisms even if exposed to large quantities of diamond over long periods of time.<br />
At least judging from what happened with quartz. Life was heavily exposed to quartz the entirety of over earth's history <br />
but there are still no fast "rock eaters" that directly feed on quartz's solid undissolved form.<br />
<br />
Yes there are glass shell forming microorganisms, but these only take up silica that already has been dissolved<br />
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolaria<br />
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom<br />
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_dioxide#Biology<br />
Bamboo too has a surprising amount of silica in it's leaves (producing a lot of fly-ash when burned)<br />
<br />
== Eventual non-resillience against artificial physical hacking attacks ==<br />
<br />
Long story short products of [[gem-gum technology]] will likely be and stay immune against biodegradability forever.<br />
But ... as humans are their own worst enemy we eventually will make microscale robots for the sole purpouse of physically infiltrating<br />
products of [[gem-gum technology]] and taking control over them.<br />
<br />
Malicious [[Mobile nanoscale robotic device]]s with added capabilities of free space mobility. <br />
Most likely only with capabiliteis of [[microcomponent maintenance microbot]]s. <br />
That is no capability of [[Piezochemical mechanosynthesis]].<br />
<br />
This page is about <br />
* how physical hacking attacks with mobile (flying/floating) microbots could be attempted and <br />
* how one could defend against that.<br />
<br />
=== Hardening against disassemblability from the surface ===<br />
<br />
* adding physical lock mechanisms needing a fitting key - See related page: [[Microcomponent tagging]]<br />
To slow down attacks<br />
* reducing the number of places where disassembly can begin<br />
* add timers for unlocking<br />
<br />
See: [[Self limitation for safety]]<br />
<br />
== Relationship to the (outdated) molecular assembler concept ==<br />
<br />
There are some similar challenges:<br />
* Need for mobility<br />
* More resilience against radiation due to no space for shielding against UV light<br />
So there is motivation for deliberately violating some of the safety sides of the [[reproduction hexagon]].<br />
<br />
== About the more or less criminal motivations ==<br />
<br />
Robbery for the purpose of attaining raw resources (chemical elements) seems unlikely. <br />
Rare elements will likely not be needed in most products since catalysis can use piezochemistry instead or <br />
just needs only minute amounts of catalyzing elements.<br />
<br />
A more plausible motivation may be the desire to gain access and reverse engineer closed source products.<br />
The goal in most cases will likely be taking control rather than total disassembly and reassembly. <br />
Large scale recomposing would likely be difficult/slow/impossible anyway, given only a small number of attacking <br />
microbots without self-replicative capabilities (because ultra-compact self-replication has three problems - See [[molecular assembler]]).<br />
<br />
Another motivation: Direct physical attack of war machinery.<br />
<br />
Even bad pranks may be a motivation. <br><br />
Getting furniture to physically assault people in their homes is not a nice thing to look forward too. <br />
All the more reason for [[self limitation for safety]]. <br />
hat is making furniture fundamentally incapable of doing that by not giving their constituents that capability. <br />
This kind of thing could even whit software hacking though. <br />
<br />
== The golden worry free times ==<br />
<br />
The time-span between <br />
* the first advanced products of [[gem-gum technology]] and <br />
* the emergence of the first malicious microbots for direct physical hacking attacks.<br />
<br />
== Related ==<br />
<br />
* [[Self limitation for safety]]</div>Apm