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.

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That 3-D data then got plugged into a solid-modeling program where engineering parameters such as material, thickness and structure were assigned to the shape.

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So although the structure hasn't yet changed, the financial parameters have.

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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.

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