Bank Accounts Considered Harmful

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For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of runners is a decreasing function of the density of credits in the accounts their programs draw from. More recently I discovered why the use of the plebeian accounts has such disastrous effects, and I became convinced that the credit pool accounts should be abolished from all "higher level" running jobs (i.e. everything except, perhaps, code busting). At that time I did not attach too much importance to this discovery; I now submit my considerations for publication because in very recent discussions in which the subject turned up, I have been urged to do so.

My first remark is that, although the runner's activity ends when he has gained entry to a server and jacked out, the process taking place under control of his accounts is the true subject matter of his activity, for it is this process that has to accomplish the desired effect; it is this process that in its dynamic behavior has to satisfy the desired specifications. Yet, once the accounts have been drawn, the "filling' of the corresponding accounts is delegated to the runner once again.

My second remark is that our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static credit efficiencies and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise runners aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the retrieval of credit resources and the dynamic process of running, to make the correspondence between the run (spread out in virt-space) and the fund raising (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.

~ Wizard ~

References

• Dijkstra, Edsger W, Goto Considered Harmful
• The Professor, New Technology Destroys the Old
• Nasir, On the Social Engineering Hack as it Applies to ICE and Bank Accounts