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Show harm, except fill up their files. But there was another thing about it, something Janni'd heard from her friend at Terra, the wise Lori. Janni bethought herself. Aye, the Snoop's programming, packed most thickly with subroutines for certain problems, was vulnerable indeed to overloading- assuredly so when it came to the DiscriminationNet patched into every Snoop. And marry, the long list of sensitive words in the Net! If and when a wight being monitored mentioned one of these sensitive words, the Governor would search out diligently all the information stored in its memory pertaining to that word and add it as a footnote to the Snoop's transcript-an efficiency of the first order dreamed up, forsooth, by some middle level Bauercrat in the SnoopingDivision many a TwelveMonth earlier. Depending upon the sensitivity of the words mentioned during any given monitoring period, the subroutine could increase the size of the monitored wight's transcript and the immediate workload for the system entire anywhere from five to five hundred times. Janni's friend, Lori, had shown her a fairly recent list of the sensitive words-most assuredly updated since then. The list was endless. "Zetts", the young Janni said out loud. Marry, she could see the computer's buffers filling up on that one, the BubbleMemories whirling through the DaySlots at the speed of light! If she and her mother were to mention enough sensitive words, pardee, the system could of a surety overload before first light on the morrow. Then the locks would fail, Isaac's God willing, and mayhap they could j u s t . . . s l i p out. Might it be that easy, pray? Her mother looked at her daughter. "Zetts?" she asked. 85 |