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Published: 2010-02-12 01:44:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 868; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 30
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Description Tales of the Red Herring: The PiRat

PiRats are virtual constructs, used by hackers to steal data.

This is usually achieved by releasing millions of PiRats into a company's DataStream, each stealing little random snippets. Assembling the stolen data at a later stage is a bit of an art.

What you see here is the most common visualisation of a PiRat mostly used by popular media to illustrate the concept.

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Part of the "Tales of the Red Herring" Universe.

Find out more about Tales of the Red Herring here --> dunwich7.deviantart.com/galler…
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Comments: 33

Soul-Daemon [2010-08-19 20:45:28 +0000 UTC]

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gdpr-1503635 [2010-03-02 23:41:37 +0000 UTC]

Yes. Yes. Yes.

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REK-drawings In reply to gdpr-1503635 [2010-03-04 03:23:03 +0000 UTC]

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The-Mirrorball-Man [2010-02-15 13:32:45 +0000 UTC]

We've been waiting for quite a while for more "Red Herring" goodness!

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REK-drawings In reply to The-Mirrorball-Man [2010-02-16 03:44:34 +0000 UTC]

Yeah^^... I'm planning to post a few more titbits over the next weeks. Background stuff, props, characters... that sort of thing

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The-Mirrorball-Man In reply to REK-drawings [2010-02-17 13:56:11 +0000 UTC]

I can't wait.

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GhostPockets [2010-02-13 19:11:38 +0000 UTC]

Dirty plague carrier... but it has managed to draw a nice picture here.

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REK-drawings In reply to GhostPockets [2010-02-13 22:23:34 +0000 UTC]



It's just the visualisation of the hacker's concept^^. The "real" PiRat is just bits and bytes in the DataStream.

(Though there was a line of PiRat plush toys, and those will very probably feature in a future TotRH story )

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GhostPockets In reply to REK-drawings [2010-02-13 23:12:55 +0000 UTC]

Sounds good, we want more so please don't wait another two years to post something new about this




Railey whatta?

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REK-drawings In reply to GhostPockets [2010-02-13 23:55:28 +0000 UTC]

Haha, yeah, been some time, eh?

At that rate you can expect a finished story in early June, 2316.



(But seriously, I'll post more ideas and concepts from TotRH on a regular basis, I hope^^.)

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GhostPockets In reply to REK-drawings [2010-02-14 00:01:42 +0000 UTC]

Kewl, I am very intrigued by all these projects you are beavering away on.

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REK-drawings In reply to GhostPockets [2010-02-14 00:11:13 +0000 UTC]

So am I

And... "beavering" sort of implies hard and continuing work. It's not really like that^^. But yeah, I'm trying to focus a bit more instead of just daydreaming

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GhostPockets In reply to REK-drawings [2010-02-14 00:28:05 +0000 UTC]

Much backslappery from this quarter.

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REK-drawings In reply to GhostPockets [2010-02-14 00:55:44 +0000 UTC]

Much appreciated.

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bobbymono [2010-02-13 11:38:16 +0000 UTC]

For some reason deviant art has something against you. It doesn't send me your stuff to my inbox. Curse it to heck!

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REK-drawings In reply to bobbymono [2010-02-14 03:45:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh! I had something similar happen as well with two people I was watching... removing watch and re-watching solved it though, if I remember correctly (was some time ago)

There's quite a few (annoying) bugs on dA

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oh-the-humanatee [2010-02-12 10:15:59 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, I like this concept a lot.

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REK-drawings In reply to oh-the-humanatee [2010-02-12 11:59:20 +0000 UTC]

Hey, thanks^^, glad you like it.

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Paddy-Wolfe [2010-02-12 09:02:40 +0000 UTC]

Pi R Squared? Pi R not Squared. Pi R round. Cornbread R Squared.

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REK-drawings In reply to Paddy-Wolfe [2010-02-12 12:00:20 +0000 UTC]



(Cornbread? I prefer apple pi.)

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Paddy-Wolfe In reply to REK-drawings [2010-02-12 13:32:18 +0000 UTC]

Well then you have a very funny shaped apple pie!

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REK-drawings In reply to Paddy-Wolfe [2010-02-12 14:00:16 +0000 UTC]

Indeed

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skpop [2010-02-12 07:31:12 +0000 UTC]

Like the pun, love the concept!

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REK-drawings In reply to skpop [2010-02-12 11:57:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks^^.

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VPizarro626 [2010-02-12 07:06:38 +0000 UTC]

OH NO! WHAT'S THE SQUARE ROOT OF PI!?

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REK-drawings In reply to VPizarro626 [2010-02-12 11:57:13 +0000 UTC]

I don't know, but I DO know it's HIP TO BE SQUARE!

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VPizarro626 In reply to REK-drawings [2010-02-12 16:36:16 +0000 UTC]

mmmmmmmmm Apple Pi

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REK-drawings In reply to VPizarro626 [2010-02-13 01:51:10 +0000 UTC]

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VPizarro626 In reply to REK-drawings [2010-02-13 01:59:02 +0000 UTC]

aaah man, I love a good math joke

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Eric-Merced [2010-02-12 04:16:27 +0000 UTC]

Very intriguing. Love it.

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REK-drawings In reply to Eric-Merced [2010-02-12 11:56:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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laresistance [2010-02-12 01:59:32 +0000 UTC]

haha, hilarious pun ! that's one smart and cool rat

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REK-drawings In reply to laresistance [2010-02-12 11:56:09 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it

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