![]() Detective Sergeant Peter Sebeck of the Ventura County sheriff’s department quickly learns (without exactly understanding how) that newspaper headlines can activate the Daemon, which throws switches that electrocute and decapitate. ![]() ![]() The first are a couple of high-level employees at CyberStorm, the Southern California corporation that controls and distributes Sobol’s hugely popular games. Before he died of brain cancer, Sobol perfected a brilliant string of programming instructions that soon begin to claim victims. That’s precisely what mastermind Matthew Sobol did. The modern way to carry out your wishes is to use a daemon, a computer program that lies dormant until other factors set it in motion. How do you really mess things up after you’re dead: tricky wills? entailments? trusts? Posthumous legal meddling is so last millennium. ![]() Computer programs left behind by a dying inventor of video games spread dark mischief around the world, pitting gamers and enabled losers against the most powerful government agencies and businesses, with the geeks holding the best hands. ![]()
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