Originally posted by dadudemonProve the mothership will be susceptible to a "WiFi attack"
This may come as a shock to you but...IEEE 802.11 standards did not exist in 1996 when ID4 was created.
The ID4 authors did not have a frame of reference at all for anything like Wi-fi because it simply did not exist as a standard, yet. Tony has that benefit and he seems to make quite a bit of use of wireless communication technologies including wireless hacking.
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Read my original post.
What happens is, Tony Stark remotely uploads a similar virus to David's. Except it takes in less than 10 minutes to create and upload it and for it to take affect unlike David's which took hours.
On top of that, the Virus disables all of the ships making all of that beautiful technology useless.
Even when considering how ridiculously stupid as the Aliens were in ID4 I think their numbers are to much for Iron Man. I don't think it's even a question if Stark could figure out a way around the Aliens shields but I don't think he would have time. He would be to busy retreating from the endless onslaught of Alien ships. Unless he has time to prepare he doesn't stand a chance. I'm sure with time to prepare there wouldn't even be a battle. As dude pointed out, the Aliens from ID4 have such a gaping weakness. Once Tony and Jarvis calibrated a proper virus all Tony has to do is get it delivered to the mother ships database. Now, how easy can Tony do this I think is another question. If he has to go to Space and deliver the virus manually he may have trouble, but if goldblum can figure it out, Stark certainly can.
Originally posted by dadudemon
No, not even close. Analyzing the decay of a signal and discovering that the decay had a negative linear growth is a math feat, not a computer science feat. A very simplistic math feat, at that.Creating malware that causes a system failing DDoS is not a high-end hacking feat, either. He could have just created a buffer overflow which is something script kiddies can do. The bulk of the computer science was done by the researchers in Area 51 over decades. David just used their knowledge to create and deliver an obvious malware payload. Not so obvious to a sentient species that is used to living in almost a pure communist system where creating malware like that would cause harm to everyone: it is likely their species purged such thinking from their society thousands or millions of years ago because it was implied that this is what the alien species did to survive (took over planets, consumed their resources, and moved on).
Was not talking about his finding of the decaying signal. My comment was directed at David's hacking/virus creating feats.
That is incorrect and here's why:
It was David who did it all and from scratch. The ship was effectively turned off since 1947 until the aliens arrived. Data said something like "we could repair the physical damage, but we could not replicate their power source". The US government conceivably only had access into the ships systems for a couple days or so.
We're talking about hacking into and adapting to an advanced and utterly alien (ie not human) software and he did it with an older MacBook in a very short amount of time.
LOL at this Stark wankage. I would expect better from all of you (except Kandy Kaz). Stark and the rest of the Avengers were on the verge of getting their shit wrecked until a nuke came into play, and that was against some humanoids with hoverpads. Hilarious how all the IM fanboys seem to ignore how the phuck he's getting past this:
1. How the phuck is he getting past that entire alien armada single-handedly?
2.WTF does IM have in his arsenal equal to the missile Spud detonated in the mile-long ship?
I demand screenfeats.
Yet Iron Man is supposed to take down a threat who could probably WTFpwn the Chituari with one mile-long ship. But IM is supposed to stop all of them all over the world. And take down the mothership. 😆
Oh no, wait, I'm sorry. Silent Master already conceded that he'll need help, so yeah. IM can't do it. Silly IM fanboys 🙄
Originally posted by Lestov16
Yet Iron Man is supposed to take down a threat who could probably WTFpwn the Chituari with one mile-long ship. But IM is supposed to stop all of them all over the world. And take down the mothership. 😆Oh no, wait, I'm sorry. Silent Master already conceded that he'll need help, so yeah. IM can't do it. Silly IM fanboys 🙄
What do you mean I conceded? my first post in this thread stated that he'd lose unless he worked with the military like David did, so it's not like I've made any biased claims or was wanking Iron-man.
If he gets a pilot similar to Smith he could get into the mother ship just like Smith and David did--remember after it went in, autopilot guided it to the parking spot. I think he could figure out the same solution. this is a guy who looks at a giant table model of a town and sees a pattern that his dead father left him and somehow uses it to build a new element on the periodic table (that all the world physicists and chemists had failed to do, or even close to do I presume) that he then uses to prevent arc reactor poisoning, lol. That's some heavy stuff. His computer knowledge would have to be off the charts also to have build Jarvis and all his other stuff. All-around unequaled genius (except maybe Reed Richards...maybe).
Originally posted by K-Dog
If he gets a pilot similar to Smith he could get into the mother ship just like Smith and David did--remember after it went in, autopilot guided it to the parking spot. I think he could figure out the same solution. this is a guy who looks at a giant table model of a town and sees a pattern that his dead father left him and somehow uses it to build a new element on the periodic table (that all the world physicists and chemists had failed to do, or even close to do I presume) that he then uses to prevent arc reactor poisoning, lol. That's some heavy stuff. His computer knowledge would have to be off the charts also to have build Jarvis and all his other stuff. All-around unequaled genius (except maybe Reed Richards...maybe).
Best unbiased post of Stark. Excellent work +1 Rep
To create a virtual living AI is beyond anything
Tony> Reed