Diana is woken by the Sun, bright white, rising over the surface of the moon. The ground beneath her is powdery, a little soft, and it presses up against her with far less force than she's used to. There is a glowing red ring on her right hand.
"Unable to comply; no data on 'colloquial' or 'legal' definition of 'public place'. Compliance. Unable to comply; cannot predict user desires."
"Network access requires unauthorized scanning and interface with private computer systems, and/or credential spoofing. Network access would be used to complete previous instructions."
"...What do you mean, you can't predict user desires, surely the human brain isn't too complex to simulate, or at least read from, for a Power Ring, and I know you've picked up on my thoughts before, so what's stopping you? You have authorization to read my mind, and I want you to know the general definition I have of shit that's not supposed to be found on Earth and-or is just bad news everywhere."
Colorless:
"...What do you mean, you can't predict user desires, surely the human brain isn't too complex to simulate, or at least read from, for a Power Ring, and I know you've picked up on my thoughts before, so what's stopping you? You have authorization to read my mind, and I want you to know the general definition I have of shit that's not supposed to be found on Earth and-or is just bad news everywhere."
"You may do that without my permission, so long as you are not accessing more than the amount of private data that you would need to spoof said credentials, are not spoofing a specific person's credentials unless they're my credentials or you have permission under the same standards as other private data, and are not creating such a volume of traffic as to impinge upon others' use of the networks in question. In an emergency situation, the latter requirement is waived."
"This ring is capable of scanning the user's brain to collect data, and of processing that data to derive some further data, but not others. Sufficiently detailed or speculative prediction of user desires or hypothetical future instructions is not something this ring can calculate from available data. Complete description of data this ring is or is not capable of deriving from scans of user's brain is not available in your language."
"Compliance. Network access unavailable."
"Very well. Begin building such a predictive model. Did you successfully derive the data I wish you to have?"
"...Why is network access still unavailable?"
"Unable to comply; cannot predict user desires."
"User does not have credentials required for network access, permission not available to use any other credentials."
"What part of my instructions prevents you from pretending to be an arbitrary device connected to arbitrary public wi-fi somewhere on the planet? Regardless, I don't care if you're reading data directly off of hard drives, what I care about is whether I could have theoretically accessed that data with no tools beyond those that anyone who wanted to access the data would need to use, save that I am going to make a specific exception that you should defeat 'region locks' and other geolocation-based denial of information."