"The Concord has provisions covering most facets of communications technology," he went on. "You know that most of the zaibatsus have their own satellites, communication and otherwise? Well, many of those satellites are thought to have sophisticated jamming circuits, or even anti-satellite—ASAT—capability, to destroy the communication assets of a competitor. Similarly, many megacorporations still carry out research into ‘core wars’—which, as I mentioned to you earlier, is viral warfare against a competitor’s computer systems.