Kepic
Your friendly neighbourhood Alien Abductor
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Jacob Walters
I had spent weeks if not months going through the code, checking, debugging, double checking. Now, all that remained was to test the program. It was, to all outside observations, a simple but pleasing screensaver - multicoloured lines bouncing about the monitor. But it was far from such a simple piece of software. It could deliver - at least, I theorized it could deliver - subliminal messages to anyone who watched the display.
Programming was just a hobby for me, although I had been through several college and evening courses... really, I was an advertisement executive, and I had several years ago become fascinated with the whole concept of subliminal advertising. There had been many stories, half truths, proven facts that it worked - though converesely nothing truly substantial. A few months back, I had finally decided to try and put theory into practice.
The program was small - a little less then 50kb when zipped - and it would read e-mails for further hidden 'secret messages' to display once it was installed onto a computer, though with the proper knowledge you could change the message manually. The first in-built message was a relatively simple one - "you love this screen saver, you don't want to ever change it. You will watch it for at least a few seconds when it comes up on your monitor."
Now, I was giving it its first trial - I had installed it onto my secretaries computer, outside my office, the previous night. Would it work? If it did, I was sure I could have a lot of fun with it.
* * *
"Morning Nadine, how are you today?" I said, as I opened the door. She was sorting through the morning mail, and I saw the screensaver - my screensaver - dancing over her monitor.
"New screensaver?" I asked, pretending to just notice it as I walked over to her desk.
I had spent weeks if not months going through the code, checking, debugging, double checking. Now, all that remained was to test the program. It was, to all outside observations, a simple but pleasing screensaver - multicoloured lines bouncing about the monitor. But it was far from such a simple piece of software. It could deliver - at least, I theorized it could deliver - subliminal messages to anyone who watched the display.
Programming was just a hobby for me, although I had been through several college and evening courses... really, I was an advertisement executive, and I had several years ago become fascinated with the whole concept of subliminal advertising. There had been many stories, half truths, proven facts that it worked - though converesely nothing truly substantial. A few months back, I had finally decided to try and put theory into practice.
The program was small - a little less then 50kb when zipped - and it would read e-mails for further hidden 'secret messages' to display once it was installed onto a computer, though with the proper knowledge you could change the message manually. The first in-built message was a relatively simple one - "you love this screen saver, you don't want to ever change it. You will watch it for at least a few seconds when it comes up on your monitor."
Now, I was giving it its first trial - I had installed it onto my secretaries computer, outside my office, the previous night. Would it work? If it did, I was sure I could have a lot of fun with it.
* * *
"Morning Nadine, how are you today?" I said, as I opened the door. She was sorting through the morning mail, and I saw the screensaver - my screensaver - dancing over her monitor.
"New screensaver?" I asked, pretending to just notice it as I walked over to her desk.