eigen_ent.msc

SCP-XXXX: eigen_ent.msc
Object Class: Safe-Gödel

Secure Containment Procedures:

SCP-XXXX-ALPHA is to be stored in Linear Tape-Open format within a secure three layer Tempest-secured vault possessive of a nuclear failsafe located at Site ██, guarded by MTF-Omega 5 (“Zero Cool”) with backup provided by MTF-[REDACTED] alongside local military forces as needed (A detail of no less than 64 active guards at all times). The vault will be equipped with a halon gas fire extinguishment system and internal climate controls set to exactly 20 degrees with an on-site backup generator in event of sandstorm or an attack on critical power structures located at the ██████ Solar Farm. Maintenance will be carried out weekly by security level 4 or above personnel with the required qualifications. In the event that no such personnel exist, funds will be allocated to enrol available personnel in the required courses as soon as possible. No more than five (5) individuals can be permitted to enter the vault at any time. Every person entering and exiting the vault must be subjected to a full body search as well as inspection for non-topological enclosures in which the tape or tapes may be concealed. Any individual found possessive of such items will be immediately detained for questioning. In the event of an attempted breach, assailants are to be repelled with any force necessary and detained for questioning if possible. In the event of an irreversible site breach, Site Command has been cleared to utilise the embedded nuclear failsafe without requiring prior O5 Council approval.

Analysis of SCP-XXXX-ALPHA can only be conducted by officers possessing security clearance level 4 or above with express permission from no less than five (5) members of the O5 Council. In order to facilitate such measures, the contents of SCP-XXXX will be encrypted via no less than five (5) cryptographically secure formats, with the key divided using Shamir’s Secret Sharing scheme and distributed with Rabin’s IDA method amongst the members of the O5 council. Each member of the council will be subjected to a targeted memetic induction device with the express aim of embedding secure memory of the 2048 bit key within the mind of the member without the need for physical memory aids or recording devices. This procedure will be completed via an air gapped custom built personal computer with the necessary software developed by a security level 4 or above technician possessing the required skillset who will then be subjected to Class-C amnestics post-procedure. Once this procedure is complete, retrieval authorisation becomes trivial: the members of the O5 council that consent to this procedure will provide their partial key after which decryption will become possible. Despite the huge risks involved, studying SCP-XXXX-ALPHA has yielded results with potentially massive ramifications for the fields of quantum physics, computer science, and information theory. Class-C amnestics will be applied after study in sealed vault to prevent key or program memorisation.

Signatures of SCP-XXXX-BINARY have been submitted via foundation agents within most major technology and security firms as a virus necessitating immediate quarantine and deletion if detected on any computer (Backdoors inserted covertly into most mainstream security software will alert the Foundation in the event of such programs being detected). This effectively neuters the possibility of SCP-XXXX-BINARY deployment at most major government institutions except for phishing or social engineering-based attacks. However, the rise in recent years of single-board computer (SBC) devices capable of executing SCP-XXXX-BINARY has led to a need for renewed caution.

Within the Foundation itself extremely stringent measures have been taken to prevent the deployment of SCP-XXXX: any computer harbouring such signatures or code (complete or otherwise) will be immediately securely wiped, and the relevant personnel remanded by RAISA agents to be relocated for questioning. Attempted transmission of SCP-XXXX-ALPHA or SCP-XXXX-BINARY via torrent or similar methods will be immediately halted due to existing Foundation treaties with Five Eyes member nations including representative parties of organisations such as GCHQ, NSA etc. capable of monitoring and manipulating digital transmission on a global scale. In the event that such transmissions cannot be halted or are discovered to be in covert progress, emergency explosive/nuclear failsafes have been authorised at major network hubs.

Existing copies of SCP-XXXX-BINARY within the jurisdiction of the Foundation (current number of copies estimated to be three (3) but exact number unclear) are to be stored in a similar format to SCP-XXXX-ALPHA with their retrieval subject to similar procedures. While the source code of SCP-XXXX possesses an infinitely greater threat if released to sufficiently knowledgeable antagonistic agents, the nature of SCP-XXXX-BINARY as an immediately executable file which can be spread and duplicated renders its existence just as if not more dangerous than SCP-XXXX-ALPHA in relatively computer-savvy hands.

Description:

SCP-XXXX-ALPHA and SCP-XXXX-BINARY are computer programs written in an unknown, possibly custom-designed variant of C with built in support for certain fields of information theory and computer science. SCP-XXXX-ALPHA is known as the “source code”, while SCP-XXXX-BINARY refers to three executable files intended for different operating systems including Windows (SCP-XXXX-BINARY-1), Linux/Un*x based systems (SCP-XXXX-BINARY-2), and Android (SCP-XXXX-BINARY-3).

SCP-XXXX-ALPHA refers to both the compiler (SCP-XXXX-ALPHA-1) and the source code (SCP-XXXX-ALPHA-2) for SCP-XXXX-BINARY. The singular file generated by SCP-XXXX-ALPHA can be linked by standard C processors, implying some degree of conversion to regular programming techniques. Analysis of both are underway, but the main body of code of SCP-XXXX-ALPHA-2 resists all attempts at comprehension: Several memetic debilitation agents have been embedded within the source code in comment and various other forms, resulting in at least one Foundation scientist attempting to destroy SCP-XXXX-ALPHA after killing all coworkers via blunt force trauma in conjunction with events [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. A sanitised version of SCP-XXXX-ALPHA-2 has been generated with all comments removed to facilitate further study. However, this has resulted in the loss of almost all creator-generated markers which, when paired alongside an extremely obfuscated and obtuse style of coding and multiple other buried cognitohazards, makes most analysis practically impossible.

To date, no known instances of SCP-XXXX-BINARY have been activated to the best of the Foundation’s knowledge. It is the opinion of most Foundation scientists who have examined the possible ramifications of SCP-XXXX-ALPHA that any such activation if not terminated within under 32 seconds would most likely result in disastrous consequences on a geopolitical scale. Nevertheless, the designation SCP-XXXX-XCOM [eXecution COMputer] has been reserved for any such incidents, even if projections show that SCP-XXXX-XCOM would almost definitely destroy itself in the activation process unless halted. THE USE OF AMBIGUITY WITHIN THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD NOT BE OMITTED FROM SUMMARY REPORTS OR PROJECTIONS RESULTING FROM THIS FINAL REPORT.

What follows is the relevant portion of the first and final analysis report provided by Dr. Mikami before his unfortunate discovery of the ASCII memetic agent.

[Recording initiated]

(Irritable comments punctuated by expletives with limited informational value expunged)

Dr. Mikami: Unintelligible Did you really have to go golfing in your own fucking code? Unintelligible Oh look, a reference that actually goes somewhere… uh… should log this in the official log… the function called IncreaseLocalEnthalpy- shit, the function called IncreaseLocalEntropy, on line 2948 in file marked eigen_ent.msc. Would be slightly worrying if the last function wasn’t called fucking Fuddify… or Fossify… Sorry. IncreaseLocalEntropy… Also referred to by a series of pointless wrapper functions, should do something interesting… Then again I said the same thing about theonuclear_proc and that just prints Hello World via the MOST CONFUSING String of expletives removed

[Silence for 10 seconds]

Dr. Mikami: Anyways, here’s a compressed comment. 256 lines? What was he, writing a confession? Uh… Well, anyways, expanding…

[Silence for 5 seconds]

Dr. Mikami: Is this ASCII art? Was the guy actually ass enough to-

[Silence for 34 seconds except for metallic impact noises]

Research Assistant Takeda: ARGHHHHHH FUCK YOU AMARI WHAT THE FUCK-

[Recording terminated]

Summary:

After extensive consideration SCP-XXXX has been classified as a highly dangerous eigendirectory, containing remote activation details of several other eigenweapons created under US Pentagram programme ARES FORGE. This was confirmed after a later interview with informant █████. All further lines of investigation into SCP-XXXX have been terminated as of the date of this report, and this report is considered final.

—O5(7)

Report edit log:

Report created: 2013/05/██
Creator: Research Assistant Takeda Kanagawa

Report edited: 2013/06/██
Editor: O5(7)
Edit Reason: N.A.

Report submitted: 2013/06/██
Submitter: O5(7)
Submission status: Passed (Automatic, not subject to review)

Report sealed: 2013/06/██
On authority of: O5(7)
Rationale: N.A.
Status: Confirmed (Automatic, not subject to review)

Supplementary Data:

Due to the existence of Eigenweapon locations and details, further detailed study results classified under level 5 access ONLY. Continued access by unauthorised personnel will result in IMMEDIATE DETENTION AND POSSIBLE TERMINATION by RAISA agents.

▸ ACCESS FILES

This computer has not been registered in the level 5 access registry, however you have proceeded with an account containing level 5 verification. This action has been reported to the level 5 access directory catalogue with a report containing your IP address and user details. If this is your regular workstation, please register for the Advanced Protection and Automatic Access [APAA] programme with your local RAISA representative officer.

Foundation Medical Centre Medical Summary

Recipient: Site 93 Site Command
Site No: 93
Patient: Research Assistant Takeda Kanagawa (Class B, Level 3)
Triage status: High priority (Order sup. Site Command)
Status: Stable (Low to limited lasting injury)
Cause of injury or disease: Blunt force trauma to prefrontal cortex leading to mild concussion and unconsciousness
Treatment: Stem bleeding of forehead, concussion treatment

Interview of Takeda Kanagawa by ██████

Subject: Takeda Kanagawa (Class B, Level 3)

Interviewer: ██████

Foreword: Conducted immediately after subject regained consciousness post-trauma due to urgency of situation

<Begin Log>
Takeda: Ughh… What the fuck- How long have I been out?
Interviewer: 2 hours and fifty-five minutes until consciousness gestation. Congratulations. I have been instructed to inform you that recovery time within this range has been positively correlated with limited long-term cognitive impairment.

Takeda: That’s… good. Wait- what happened to- oh shit- Dr. Mikami?

Interviewer: Dr. Mikami has suffered extensive mental damage through contact with an embedded memetic destabilisation agent. He has been reclassified as Class E personnel and is currently receiving treatment off-site.

Takeda: Crap. So there was some kind of… cognitohazard inside of the source?

Interviewer: Affirmative. I have been authorised to inform you that you are, in fact, the third team assigned to study SCP-XXXX in parallel. To prevent possible memetic cross-contamination with other teams, you were informed and isolated separately.

Takeda: Wait… The third team? What happened to the other two?

Interviewer: One of the research personnel on team A attempted to mathematically visualise a data structure described within SCP-XXXX-ALPHA-1. Regrettably, he described his method to other researchers within the room. The entire team has died as a result, with the cause of death ruled as automatically administered memetic kill agent. Team B unfortunately succumbed to severe retrograde amnesia after they attempted to prettify a section of code, realigning several embedded strings. I have not been authorised to reveal further details. As you are the sole remaining survivor of contact with SCP-XXXX-ALPHA-2, what I need from you is a simple description of what happened.

Takeda: I was poking at the binary, and the last thing I heard Dr. Mikami say was something about a compressed comment that he tried to expand… He came at me just as I ran the thing.

Interviewer: (Agitated) You attempted to execute the binary? You were under strict instructions-

Takeda: I ran it on a sandboxed VM within an air-gapped machine for less than 20 seconds before he killed it by bashing the computer and my head in, this will hardly-

<End Log>

Closing Statement: Interviewer activated emergency protocol for site 93 immediately after terminating the interview.

Site 93 Decommissioning Report (Former Storage site for SCP-XXXX-ALPHA and SCP-XXXX-BINARY)

Final Decommissioning report
Site no.: 93
Usage: Advanced AI, computer science research
Location: ██████, Japan
Current Status: Collapsed post-decommissioning
Cause: Structural collapse due to wear from age
In use: 2008/12 - 2013/06
Date of collapse: 2013/07/03 (7 days after decommissioning)
Rationale: Containment failure of SCP. Local govt contacted to provide cover story.
Remarks: Building was constructed using bunker techniques to withstand Richter 9.0 or below earthquakes for at least 50 years. Collapse highly unusual.

Exchange with informant VERAX

Preface: The exchange was conducted via PGP-secure email with informant VERAX (later revealed as “██████ ███████”). Informant VERAX obtained communication details for a high level Foundation member in charge of the Foundation Informant Protection Programme (FIPP) via unknown means, possibly due to proven Pentagon connections. The following input has been sanitised for ease of reading.
Date: 2013/05/20
Sender: VERAX (██████ ███████)
Recipient: Official █████

VERAX: I have important information for the Foundation.
█████: Who is this?
VERAX: You’ll know soon enough. I have important information. Do you want it?
█████: I’ll need to know more before I’m able to say.
VERAX: I’m from the Pentagram. SIGKILL division.
█████: We do not have information on any such division.
VERAX: Then you know less than I thought. What I have is an encrypted folder. Have your techs check it, it does not contain a virus digital or occult. At least, if you’re not stupid enough to run the file. Then I have no guarantees.
Attachment {pink_fluffy_unicorns[0].zip}
█████: What does the file contain?
VERAX: It is a digital weapon of occult origin, enough to cause an entire island to spontaneously collapse. But to tell you more, I need something first.
█████: What do you want?
VERAX: Your protection program. FIPP. Not the stuff that gets leaked by a couple of guys in a blackhawk, the top tier. Embedded national security.
█████: How did you come to access this information?
VERAX: The Pentagram has its ways.
█████: We could just analyse these files without your assistance.
VERAX: Those are binaries. I have the source. Trust me, you’ll need it. I’ll give you the names of a few moles on the side.
█████: No less than 3 high level infiltrators.
VERAX: I’ll give you one. Dr. [REDACTED].
█████: Await my reply.

[3 days later]

█████: Where will you be?
VERAX: I’ll be leaving my current residences by June at the latest. You will arrange an accident. I will be waylaid in Russia. You will know my name by then- I intend on breaking some more news.
█████: Hand over two more names and source code on arrival.

Text excerpt

Supplementary information: Extracted from security footage of Dr. Mikami's workstation. Embedded in comment below memetic disability agent

Who am I even writing this to? If you’re reading this you’ve probably seen the “art” three lines ago and gone crazy already. I guess I’m writing to myself. Or maybe Ed found somebody clever. The files are in .tmp. The password is “SIGKILL-U3F1ZWFtaXNoT3NzaWZyYWdl”.

Final Report of the SCP-XXXX Research Group

LEVEL 5 EYES ONLY
Compiled by: Researcher Kanagawa
Preliminary information: In lieu of receiving Type-C amnestics, Research Assistant Kanagawa has been promoted to the status of Researcher, granted provisional level 4 access, and permitted to lead further analysis of SCP-XXXX via the SCP-XXXX Research Group in a secure location.

Report: After reviewing records of previous attempts at analysis, comments were found referring to a encrypted hidden folder within the original compressed directory containing SCP-XXXX-ALPHA and SCP-XXXX-BINARY-1 to 3. The encrypted folder contains one plaintext document:

To whoever the fuck finds this,

I assume that at least one of you has already died. Take that as a warning: DON’T MESS WITH THIS SHIT. If Ed is half as resourceful as I think he is, you’ll already know about Pentagram and the rest (including memetic kill agents). Rest assured, those measures were necessary to make sure that only the right people find this (plus they were mandated by my supervisors) Everyone else dumb enough to run before analysing would almost definitely die after running the program for maybe a minute. But it would be worth it. At least, I sure hope so.

I’ll rewind, for the sake of my fucking conscience if not yours. The Pentagram wanted a weapon to trigger massive local damage with culpable deniability after the fiasco at Camp David in ’86- i.e. nobody from the Pentagram could be seen entering or leaving the area, and no falling stars, spontaneous zombie armies, or massive lasers either. The obvious method, then, would be some kind of computer hack- which is why they started their SIGKILL program in ’01 with PATRIOT dark money. Unfortunately, not many normal viruses cause sizeable explosions. The occasional electrical fire, sure, but nothing so large as some C4. Not anymore. This baby can run on anything- phones, [Brand of popular SBC] Zeros, desktops. Heck, I’ve even got a .exe version for noobs.

To put it simply, it’s the world’s worst random number generator- sorry, “information entropy generator”. To make random numbers, it needs a source of entropy- normally in most programs, you do this by moving the mouse around or typing some random letters and measuring the time between each keystroke. This baby, using something we call sympathetic physics (think spooky action at a distance via generating large amounts of information entropy at the thaumic level), injects entropy into the local area to collect as data. Eigenentropy, if you will.

But what is Entropy? (Shut up, physics majors, I’m talking to the executive level here) Entropy is chaos. How do you increase chaos? By breaking stuff. Every time you pick up, move, smash, use, anything, chaos is increased, usually by heat escaping. This heat can’t be gathered back up, it radiates into the cosmic void (which, coincidentally, is how [REDACTED] gains its [REDACTED] for [REDACTED]) You can call it friction, or heat loss, or melting, or burning, heat moves from hot to cold, and there ain’t nothing colder than the unhearing void of space. That is why heat is always lost, and chaos always increases. Maybe you’re starting to see how radically increasing entropy in at the thaumic level is really bad news. Because all that entropy needs to be expressed here, physically as well.

So how does entropy increase manifest in our universe? It’s no different from time being sped up. Decay, wear and tear, loss of structural integrity, cracks, normally elastic objects hardening and cracking, secure enclosures becoming… less secure, electronic storage mediums getting wiped due to “accidental decay”, electromagnetic interference, oxidation (rust), increased melting speed, erratic weather patterns (thanks, chaos theory) and natural phenomena, telomere damage, mutations, organ failure, things that end up looking a lot like radiation poisoning. Oh, and don’t get me started when somebody ends up phishing the phone of the guy working at a nuclear silo (Nuclear decay tends to increase entropy, especially if a nuke goes off because of it). Say hello to a brand new age of international nuclear cyberterrorism.

And the worst part is? It’s undetectable. The computer running the program will probably destroy itself after 32 seconds (my program forks itself geometrically), but the cascading result of that means you almost definitely won’t see it amongst the corpses. Even then, everything I mentioned tends to inevitably happen by itself. There’s no sabotage- it just fell apart of its own accord.

Except I would say that, wouldn’t I? After all, I developed it. It’s also possible that all the extra entropy makes a few ice cubes melt and stops itself there. That, or a national park with a bunker inside it triggers early. But I can’t take that risk. Going to sleep every night, thinking about whether every fucking accident in the world is my fault. Call me a traitor, but I don’t love America enough to send the rest of the world to hell for it.

So I’m going to test it. Once I hand the only other copy to Ed (just in case they have a backup of my white paper stored somewhere, which they probably do), I’ll give my work to my boss, and run a demonstration. And by god, I’m going to get some good chi-square scores after this.

Panta rhei,
You don’t need to know my name (Because I’m going to be dead)

To the best of our knowledge, SCP-XXXX-BINARY performs as described, as evidenced by the events surrounding the collapse of Site 93. Researcher Kanagawa’s former personal computer has been retroactively classified as SCP-XXXX-XCOM-2 and destroyed.

There is no known way to detect execution of SCP-XXXX-BINARY, as the program does not require a network connection. Even if detected, there would be no way to disable SCP-XXXX-XCOM except for high-intensity EMP deployment within the general vicinity, almost certainly leading to high amounts of collateral damage. Due to the exponential nature of SCP-XXXX-BINARY, it is highly likely that high amounts of damage can be surreptitiously dealt to formerly secure facilities or sites (in particular, sites housing Euclid or Keter class SCPs requiring highly specific and complex countermeasures) in a short amount of time without any method of identifying or protecting against said effects. This does not take into account the possible threat of multiple infected computers (a “botnet” in common parlance) executing SCP-XXXX-BINARY simultaneously, the worst-case scenario ramifications of which may lead to the complete collapse of all vital Foundation institutions within the space of literal minutes.

It is our recommendation that the most stringent measures be taken to secure this technology immediately, and a cover story manufactured to explain the deaths of prior researchers. This cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of the Insurgency.

SCP-XXXX Research Group
2013/07/25

O5 Council Records

O5 Council Record
Motion: Immediate neutralisation of SCP-XXXX through magnetic wipe conducted by trained personnel at site 108 tape library.
Remark: Due to the sensitive nature of this vote, participation will proceed via secret ballot.
Results: 6 (Yea), 7 (Nay), 0 (Abstain)

O5 Council Record
Motion: Utilisation of SCP-XXXX as neutralisation device against known antagonistic locations as listed in addendum I
Remark: Due to the sensitive nature of this vote, participation will proceed via secret ballot.
Results: 5 (Yea), 2 (Nay), 6 (Abstain)
[VETOED BY ETHICS COMMITTEE]

O5 Council Record
Motion: Utilisation of SCP-XXXX as retaliatory neutralisation device in the event of a first strike from known antagonistic locations as listed in addendum I & II
Remark: Due to the sensitive nature of this vote, participation will proceed via secret ballot.
Results: [REDACTED]