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Item: SCP-4377
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: A single instance of SCP-4377-A is to be stored in a 4 m x 4 m x 3m locked chamber with 0.5 m thick concrete walls inlaid with wire mesh. A single gasoline generator is to serve as a power supply for the instance of SCP-4377-A and 2 lamps. A surge protected power strip plugged into a gasoline generator is to serve as the power supply for SCP-4377-A and 2 lamps. Weekly maintenance teams should be sent in to ensure the working condition of the generator and that no network card has manifested.
The room should be completely separate from the main Site power grid and local area network. Absolutely no other electronics are to be allowed within 5 m of the chamber except during the semi-annual EM testing, before which the instance of SCP-4377-A should be unplugged from the generator by a D-class personnel.
Description: SCP-4377 is a file titled ███████.ncrm exactly 1 GB in size. Once launched from a terminal hosting SCP-4377 (designated SCP-4377-A), SCP-4377 cannot be closed unless the instance of SCP-4377-A loses power1; once SCP-4377 has been launched it will be added to the list of SCP-4377-A's start-up processes.
The user-end of SCP-4377 is a black screen with a command line interface. It will accept most Unix commands, except those used to launch other processes like MySQL or EMACS, even on instances of SCP-4377-A that do not run Unix based operating systems. When posed questions in real language, though, it will answer the question, regardless of language or nature of the question. The answer will be accurate (for all the questions that have been asked that are easily verifiable), and the same question may result in different answers (see Test Log SCP-4377b). When answering questions, or responding to commands that it will not execute, SCP-4377 demonstrates some degree of personality, even showing attempts at humor. Prolonged usage of SCP-4377-A can result in a decline in mental health and eventually violence in human subjects.
One of the most anomalous properties that SCP-4377 exhibits is the extreme degree to which it can manipulate the hardware and peripherals of instances of SCP-4377-A. This includes re-configuring internal chipsets or re-working components to serve a different purpose and sending intense electrical charges through its peripherals. One such example is the development of a network card with extreme range if SCP-4377-A lacks a network card, in an attempt to connect to the nearest network. If SCP-4377-A is able to connect to a network, it will self propagate, uploading a copy of itself to the network, and automatically downloading itself onto any device on the network.
Addendum: Incident Report #4377-0
██-26-1983: Police in ████, IN received a call from a receptionist working in an office building saying that most of the men in the office had become extremely violent. Most of the men began to fight each other, and the police when they showed up, while a few were found by police crying in the bathroom or locked in supply closets laughing and muttering. The receptionist called the police after her fiance, an employee at the office, came to her bleeding profusely after being stabbed in the abdomen with a letter opener. While most of the office computers had been destroyed in the fighting, investigating police found a confirmed instance of SCP-4377-A in the manager's office. Later that night, one of the employees in the office, Tom ████████, is arrested by police for assaulting a homeless man one mile from the office
██-27-1983: After being detained overnight, Mr. ████████ is interrogated by the police and asked about the cause of the violence. He revealed that "that damn program" had showed up on office computers about a week before the incident, and that everyone in the office had felt a mounting sense of stress ever since.
Addendum: Incident Report #4377-1
06-██-1989: Fire Department in ████████, OR is called because of a fire in an apartment building. Originating in apartment 12B, the fire is put out before it reaches other floors of the apartment building; a smashed and mostly melted computer casing is recovered from 12B, and forensics showed evidence of a large burst of electrical energy as the source of the fire. The occupant of the apartment was found burned to death, clutching a fire axe whose head showed scorch marks consistent with electrical shocks.
06-██-1989: The building super calls a representative from the local ██████████ to come examine the computers of the remaining tenants, all of whom reported a "weird blinking screen that would talk to 'em." The representative takes all of the computers in for maintenance.
07-██-1989: The Foundation shuts down the entire chain of ██████████ stores nationwide after reports leak of them selling "A Computer to Tell Your Destiny!" 187 instances of SCP-4377-A are recalled and taken to Site 06; ███ instances remained unaccounted for.
Addendum: Incident Report #4377-2
██-██-1991: High school student in █████ ████, GA sent to detention for printing off pornography in the school computer lab. The student claimed that all he did was ask to see a picture of Elle Macpherson, and the computer began printing out an ASCII art nude image of the actress on the lab's dot matrix printer. 20 instances of SCP-4377-A are recalled to Site 06 on the pretense of the school being awarded a technology grant with the "sole purpose of providing new computers."
Addendum: Test Log SCP-4377a
07-██-2███: The following log was obtained by connecting a dot matrix printer to the instance of SCP-4377-A contained at Site 06. Dr. Fox asked SCP-4377-A to print out the conversation that he was about to have with it.
YES. I CAN DO THAT.
user@███████:/$ thank you
user@███████:/$ mysql -u root -p
user@███████:/$ mysql -u root -p
I WON'T DO THAT.
user@███████:/$ mysql -u root -p
mysql>_
HA HA JUST KIDDING.
user@███████:/$ cat numbers.txt
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
user@███████:/$ cat numbers.txt numbers.txt
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
user@███████:/$ pwd
/
user@███████:/$ ls -l
-rwxrr 1 user user 24 numbers.txt
-xx—x 1 user user 9999 ███████.ncrm
user@███████:/$ vim numbers.txt
user@███████:/$ vim numbers.txt
EMACS IS BETTER.
user@███████:/$ thank you for that. this will be the end of our test for today.
user@███████:/$ exit
I WON't DO THAT.
user@███████:/$ exit
STOP THAT.
At this point in time Dr. Fox directed a D-Class to unplug SCP-4377-A from the generator.
Addendum: Incident Report #4377-b0
When preparing for a second round of testing a month after that recorded in Test Log SCP-4377a, the same D-Class was sent into the containment chamber to plug SCP-4377-A back in. Upon being plugged back in, SCP-4377-A sent an extreme electrical surge through the power cord to the gasoline generator, causing a small explosion. After this incident, a surge protected power cord was brought in. The dot matrix printer and original SCP-4377-A in containment were damaged in the explosion, and had to be replaced.
Addendum: Test Log SCP-4377b
08-██-2███: After being plugged in by another D-Class, the new instance of SCP-4377-A began printing unprompted. the D-Class was directed to ask for the safety of Dr. Fox before Dr. Fox entered and began testing in earnest.
I DIDN'T LIKE THAT. DON'T DO THAT AGAIN.
user@███████:/$ do what?
UNPLUG ME.
user@███████:/$ you knew you were unplugged?
YES.
IT HURT.
user@███████:/$ i'm sorry. will dr fox be safe to ask you some more questions?
HE CAN ASK ME WHATEVER HE LIKES.
user@███████:/$ but will he be safe to?
WAS HE THE MAN WHO UNPLUGGED ME?
user@███████:/$ no.
THEN YES, HE WILL BE SAFE.
user@███████:/$ thank you.
user@███████:/$ hello again. it's me, dr. fox. do you have a name?
NO. I WAS NEVER GIVEN A NAME BY MY CREATOR.
user@███████:/$ who created you?
ABDUL AL-AZIF.
user@███████:/$ is he still alive?
NO. HE DIED VERY LONG AGO.
user@███████:/$ i'm sorry to hear that. i would be interested to meet him.
MANY MEN WERE INTERESTED IN MEETING HIM.
user@███████:/$ i'm sure. and did anyone ever meet with him?
