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Old 13-June-2007, 09:15 AM
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Hmmm. I take the reason for that--at least in the case of Ghost in the Shell (haven't seen it elsewhere)--is so the androids cannot be back-hacked. Plus the androids do other tasks besides just work at their computer stations.
People were always getting hacked through their cybernetic implants, so I doubt that would work out very well for robots. Anyway, there are more efficient ways of setting up firewalls.
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