/c2Level    : Technological Singularity

/c2Date     : January 20, 2008
/c2Location : Unknown

Last time somebody counted, there where over 50 billion microprocessors
on the planet. At some point, the number of decisions and actions taken
by microprocessors exceeded the number of decisions and actions taken
by living human beings. We are now at the forefront of a technological
singularity, where the amount of technology exceeds our population.

What will happen from here? Nobody knows. 
But it's a good idea to try and stop it ... or at least slow it down.

There is a pretty simple and interesting way of doing this. One company
in the world is producing the microcontrollers that control the speed
of most microprocessors on the market. If I can get my hands on the
code that runs them and alter it, I could slow down all CPU's by one
percent when the next firmware update happens. Nobody really measures
CPU speeds that accurately, and this can go unnoticed on a large scale.

However, getting that firmware won't be easy.

Here are your objectives:

/c2 1 - Download the firmware from the NanXTech Corp. server

/c2 2 - Upload a copy of that firmware to mail.steve.server

/c2 3 - Upload an altered version to the NanXTech FTP server

/c2 4 - Find a way to trigger the firmware update

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