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SCP-4970

Item #: SCP-4970

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4970 is to be stored on a desktop computer. (hence known as SCP-4970-1). Candidates for SCP-4970-1 must meet the following requirements:

• SCP-4970-1 must not be connected to the internet.¹
• No files must be stored on SCP-4970-1, except for SCP-4970.¹
• SCP-4970-1 must not be connected to power if it is not being used.

There are almost no specific requirements for the storage of SCP-4970-1, but a lead-lined room measuring approximately 3 metres in height and 5 metres in width and depth is advised. The only object required for SCP-4970's containment is a power source.
Personnel who are directly involved with testing SCP-4970 must submit to the administration of a Class-A Amnestic afterwards to prevent sensitive information collected from SCP-4970 from being revealed. There are two exceptions to this: if the individual has a Level 3 clearance level or if the individual is assigned to SCP-4970 and is required to know this information.
Copies of SCP-4970 must not be created without the approval of a member of senior research staff assigned to SCP-4970, and only for testing purposes. Such copies are stored on individual optical hard drives which are incinerated after the test that they were created for is completed. Any Foundation personnel found to be in possession of an unauthorised copy of SCP-4970 will be terminated.
If SCP-4970 shows any signs of sentience, it must be immediately reclassified to Euclid.

Description: SCP-4970 is a command prompt-based computer operating system created by an unnamed organisation, possibly a group of interest, in the year 19██. It was discovered on ██/██/20██ stored on an unlabelled floppy disk in a warehouse in █████████, Nevada, USA during a police raid. SCP-4970 was retrieved from the NVPD by the Foundation approximately 48 hours later (with all evidence of SCP-4970's presence expunged, including the administration of Class-B Amnestics to all affected officers and staff) and taken to Site-15.
SCP-4970 is able to access files from any system it has come into contact with, even without any sort of connection to them at the time of accessing. It is unknown how SCP-4970 does this, but one theory is that it is programmed to download all files stored on systems it affects (Disproved, see Test 4970-X). Currently, the only method in which SCP-4970 has affected other systems is through sharing the same internet connection. The known systems SCP-4970 has affected² are listed below:

• The filing system of [REDACTED] precinct in █████████, Nevada, USA³.
• █ archive servers and ██ desktop computers from Site-15 (See Incident 4970-A).
• The mailing list of ███████ Group.
• A server system belonging to the government of ██████, which contains [DATA EXPUNGED].
• The personal financial records of ████ █████.
• A laptop belonging to an unidentified individual.
• [REDACTED]
• The entire local area network of ████████████ High School.

SCP-4970 also has a collection of database files built into its source code (hence known as SCP-4970-2). The contents of SCP-4970-2 are unknown because there is presently no known way to access SCP-4970's source code, despite multiple attempts.

Addendum: Following Test 4970-X, SCP-4970's ability affects not only the systems it comes into contact with, but the files on those systems as well. Those files can be moved to systems SCP-4970 doesn't recognise and can still be read. It is unknown if moving these files to unaffected systems connects them to SCP-4970. Further testing is required.

Interviews, Test Logs and Incident Reports:
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS ARE CLASSIFIED!
Level 2 clearance is required to view these documents, and unappended versions are available on request from Site-15's archive servers for personnel assigned to SCP-4970, or with a Level 3 clearance level.

Click here to activate identification procedures.

The following files are listed in chronological order. Computers connected to SCP-4970 during testing are identified as S-4970-X, where S stands for subject and X represents a lettering system which corresponds to the order in which the subject is connected to SCP-4970 (the first connected being A, the second being B, ect.).

Interview 4970-A
Interviewed: Sergeant █████ ██████ (Sgt. ██████), police officer at [REDACTED] precinct³.

Interviewer: Agent ████

Foreword: An interview conducted in an attempt in understanding SCP-4970's origins.

<Begin Log, ██:██>

Agent ████: "Can you start by telling me where you found the disk?"

Sgt. ██████: "We found it in an old warehouse, in ██████████ Street."

Agent ████: "What were you doing there?"

Sgt. ██████: "We had been tipped off about a local gang using it to [REDACTED]. It turned out to be a false lead."

Agent ████: "So if you didn't find what you wanted, why did you take back the disk?"

Sgt. ██████: "Because the warehouse was being used to store household appliances. The disk seemed out of place, so we took it back as evidence."

Agent ████: "What did you find on the disk?"

Sgt. ██████: "It was some sort of command prompt. Not like an application, but something you'd use as your operating system. But there was something about it that was… off."

Agent ████: "What do you mean by 'off'?"

Sgt. ██████: "We found a few commands that worked on the prompt, but one we found could read files from our system. This wouldn't usually be a problem since all computers in the precinct can access the system. Except the computer the prompt was on was prohibited from reading the files it did. It didn't seem right."

Agent ████: "Do you know the command that allowed the prompt to do this?"

Sgt. ██████: "No. The only person who knows that is ████ from the IT department. I do know the command used to connect the prompt to the internet, which is [REDACTED]. It's strange how a program found on a floppy disk is capable of wireless connection, eh?"

Agent ████: "I suppose it is. Thank you, that is all."

<End Log, ██:██>

Closing Statement: A Class-B Amnestic was administered to Sgt. ██████. "████ from the IT department" had already had an Amnestic administered, so they were unavailable for interview. The command prompt was given an SCP classification and taken to Site-15.

Test 4970-A
Purpose: To find a command that allows SCP-4970 to read files from affected systems.
Process: An internet connection was set up between SCP-4970 and S-4970-A. Dr. █████ attempted to access a file called "readme.txt" stored on S-4970-A using SCP-4970 through a trial-and-error method.
Result: After several attempted commands, a command was used that successfully read the contents of the target file.
Addendum: This is an important first step in the testing of SCP-4970. It was a unanimous decision between senior research staff assigned to SCP-4970 to not release discovered commands in the test logs, mainly to prevent unauthorised use of SCP-4970. Known commands will only be issued to those involved in testing SCP-4970, and Amnestics will be administered afterwards as per the Special Containment Procedures. -Dr. █████

Test 4970-B
Purpose: To test the limits of what file types SCP-4970 can access.
Process: An internet connection was set up between SCP-4970 and S-4970-A. Stored on S-4970-A was a collection of ███ files of different file types. Dr. █████ attempted to access as many as possible using SCP-4970.
Result: Dr. █████ used SCP-4970 to read ██ files of different file types from S-4970-A. Approximately 5 minutes after the experiment, it was discovered that SCP-4970 was not connected to S-4970-A due to Dr. █████ forgetting to connect it to the internet connection
Addendum: This changes things. Looks like SCP-4970 is more interesting than we initially thought. Further testing is required. -Dr. █████

Test 4970-C
Purpose: To test the limits of SCP-4970's ability from Test 4970-B.
Process: Names of files from [REDACTED] precinct's³ filing system were retrieved by undercover Foundation agents. Dr. █████ attempted to access the named files using SCP-4970.
Result: All named files were successfully read from the precinct's servers.
Addendum: We carried out this test because we thought that if SCP-4970 could access S-4970-A without a connection, it could theoretically access other systems it had connected with in a similar manner. We were right. This opens up multiple windows for tests in the future that could potentially explain how SCP-4970 is able to do what it does. Testing continues. -Dr. █████

Other things

Test log template:

Test XXXX-X
Purpose: [TEXT]
Process: [TEXT]
Result: [TEXT]
Addendum: [TEXT]

Black box:
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Footnotes

1. Except for testing purposes with permission from senior research staff. Refer to the test logs for examples of suitable usage.

2. Excluding those affected by SCP-4970 for testing purposes.

3. Where SCP-4970 was retrieved by the Foundation