The story has something of an error but it isn't a huge one.
In practice the search space of all 10Gb .avi files contains many viruses, some of which will escape any given imperfect video player and negatively impact the experimental apparatus, say by printing all 9s. As a thought experiment, however, I love the story.
In practice the search space of all 10Gb .avi files contains many viruses, some of which will escape any given imperfect video player and negatively impact the experimental apparatus, say by printing all 9s. As a thought experiment, however, I love the story.