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| | TAP - a novelette by Greg Egan |
 | | TAP could always be spoken or written, but bandwidth requirements made modulated infrared the medium of choice, so the implant was linked, via the spinal cord, to bioengineered IR transceiver cells in the skin of the palms. |
 | | Whatever Grace Sharp had imagined, or whatever TAP sequence some would-be assassin had confronted her with, all the safeguards operated on a separate level, independent of the language protocol -- and when the implant had been examined after the autopsy, there'd been no trace of damage or corruption to the relevant hardware or software. |
 | | TAP users could never have spoken the code, even if they'd wanted to -- but every consumer device on the planet was starting to put out a flood of infrared. |
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