User blog comment:El Alamein/HAL 9000 vs. Anonymous/@comment-4661256-20121011213459/@comment-26074921-20121013122011

Do you not see any issue here at all? There is far to much in this battle that simply does not work.

for starters, HAL was built specifically for the ship, we have absolutely no way of knowing if he is capable of hacking, or responding to hackers in any manner at all, nor is he EVER shown in ANY similar situation. We have no way of knowing if he is even hack-able. We don't even know if HAL is able to connect with the outside world at all. Hell we don't even know what technology he runs on and if it would be even compatible with modern tech that anonymous is using. He's a flipping Artificial Intelligence.

Never mind the fact that Anonymous typically uses Denial of Service attacks when they "attack" Which in no way would help them here. Nor have we considered how they would even connect to it. Spaceships aren't exactly linked by the internet to the earth and no communication to and from the ship would allow them to hack it. We don't even know how the ship is kept in contact, again we don't even know the tech used.

Then there is the situation. HAL killing the astronauts and Anonymous coming to their aid. Yeah that doesn't work. How would the astronauts even get a message to Earth that fast before being killed? That takes time. Not to mention the nature of Anonymous itself. Anonymous isn't an organization. Instead it can be any person behind a computer that donates their skill/time/computer anonymously. It is like a collective conscious, not an organization. And in this instance Anonymous wouldn't respond, Why would they? It is not Anonymous's goal to save astronauts, and it is ridiculous to assume that this would happen at all, and if it did it would be as individuals on a computer, not Anonymous. Not to mention the previous issue of How do a bunch of random people on the internet connect to a spaceship near Jupiter that uses unknown technology to take down an artificial intelligence the likes of which they have never encountered when their main method of attack is useless? Not to mention he fact we have no idea how HAL reacts in cyberspace at all

I know many if not all of the battles hear require speculation, and that is often part of the thrill of debate, but here far to much speculation and assumptions are needed to make the battle even come close to working. The fact of the matter is, I like you EA, and this is by no means a personal attack. But this battle, in my opinion, should not be happening at all.