That 3-D data then got plugged into a solid-modeling program where engineering parameters such as material, thickness andstructure were assigned to the shape.
Even worse, it appears that BadNews is polymorphic, that is, it changes its own code structure depending on its deployment parameters making it considerably harder to detect and remove.
While he could have made a spiffy set of charts, Larsen claims that there are certain parameters, like sunlight and temperature, that give the data a structure that lends itself to musical representation.