[ WP ] In a future , where wars are fought with androids , a hacker managed to infiltrate the update-servers of the military and replaced the firmware of all models with software geared towards the civilian market . The consequences were bigger than anyone could 've imagined .

Sergeant Stephan Millan crawled through the tall grass surrounding the enemy camp. He bore no gun, no one did anymore, no one could anymore - not since the global anti-violence satellite system was deployed one hundred and sixty years ago. Instead he bore the one item the system could n't recognize as a weapon, the Galaxy Nexus smartphone. They had n't been weapons originally, but were actually used recreationally by men women and children alike or at least that's what the historians said but it was difficult to believe them - who'd let a child play with a Nexus? 
 
 He slowly reached the enemy look out who was asleep in his chair. Slowly rising up he withdrew his nexus in its holster and took a deep breath. He had to be careful, the anti-violence system would incinerate him if so much as a finger scraped the enemy. He held the bottom half of the phone with both hands and swung from the hip trying to smash in the lookouts skull with a corner of the phone. 
 
 *Crack* 
 
 The lookout fell over dead, but he'd been too loud. He could already hear enemy soldiers getting up inside the camp. Re-holstering his Nexus he turned around began to sprint away from the camp - paying little heed to stealth, but he quickly saw a couple of soldiers returning from town in front of him. He was surrounded. 
 
 He did n't bother pulling out his Nexus, he was on guard so they could n't kill him easily - but if he knew that if he tried to run one of them would commit suicide to take him down. At least he had a shot at freedom as a POW. 
 
 His Nexus suddenly began vibrating in its holster, but he ignored it to shout his surrender. He lay down on the ground an put his hands behind his head hoping the savages understood. 
 
 They surrounded him and began to speak amongst themselves, they seemed quite angry - `` probably about the dead lookout'', he thought but he never could make heads or tails of their savage language. 
 
 They'd quietened down after a few minutes and he was considering looking up when the blows started to rain down on him. He felt his arm break after the first few blows but could n't even run away as he was surrounded and would need to push someone to get away and then the system would kill him instead. He curled up into a ball and began praying from help. 
 
 *BZZZZT* 
 
 The blows stopped all of a sudden, and Stephan looked up only to see the charred corpses of the enemy. He was confused, this did n't make sense. Sure in this kind of melee one of them might have accidentally hit him with a hand or foot - but all of them? Something was wrong - or god actually had answered his prayers. 
 
 But that could wait until he got back to camp - there did n't seem to be any other enemy soldiers within sight, but who knew how long that'd be the case. Moving as fast as his bruised body would allow, he managed to get back to camp in a few hours without getting spotted by any other enemy soldiers enroute. He fainted as soon as he entered the camp. 
 
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 Stephan would later learn that the reason he survived was that a hacker managed to gain access to what remained of the defunct global wireless network and tried to use it to send out a mandatory update containing a simple location tracking virus for all Nexus smartphones, hoping to sell the information gleaned to the highest bidder. The hacker made a mistake however as he had n't considered the fact that such a location tracking system would be considered as a weapon in and of itself by the anti-violence system - which fried him as soon as he finished uploading the update. 
 
 This update the hacker pushed did succeed however, and resulted in every updated Nexus smartphone being recatogorized by the antiviolence system as a Nexus smartphone - updated version, and thereby no longer subject to the bug which allowed for Nexus smartphones to be unclassifiable as weapons. 
 
 War ended across the world with this hack as the only Nexus smartphones which remained were those few which had been stored in farraday cages. Or at least it did for a few weeks until weapons manufacturers managed to ship out the next batch of smartphones. 
 
 Stephan however never rejoined the war as his broken arm meant he no longer possessed the fine motor control required for the proper use of a Nexus smartphone. 
 
 
 
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 End story 
 
 
 Author note; not sure what happened here, it got away from me. 
 
 
 

