<P> Matrix Warrior: Being the One author Jake Horsley compared the red pill to LSD, citing a scene where Neo forms his own world outside of the Matrix . When he asks Morpheus if he could return, Morpheus responds by asking him if he would want to . Horsley also describes the blue pill as addictive, calling The Matrix series a continuous series of choices between taking the blue pill and not taking it . He adds that the habits and routines of people inside the Matrix are merely the people dosing themselves with the blue pill . While he describes the blue pill as a common thing, he states that the red pill is one of a kind, and something someone may not even find . </P> <P> In the book The Art of the Start, author Guy Kawasaki uses the red pill as an analogue to the situation of leaders of new organizations, in that they face the same choice to either live in reality or fantasy . He adds that if they want to be successful, they have to take the red pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes . </P> <Ul> <Li> The Blue Pill rootkit ("malware")--named in reference to the pill as are the Red Pill techniques used to combat it--is a special type of software that utilizes the virtualization techniques of modern CPUs to execute as a hypervisor; as a virtual platform on which the entire operating system runs, it is capable of examining the entire state of the machine and to cause any behavior with full privilege, while the operating system "believes" itself to be running directly on physical hardware, creating a parallel to the illusory Matrix . Blue Pill describes the concept of infecting a machine while Red Pill techniques help the operating system to detect the presence of such a hypervisor . These concepts were described by Joanna Rutkowska in 2006 . </Li> <Li> In cybersecurity, a red pill (demonized from Rutkowska's Red Pill) is any means of detecting hooking or virtualization . It is frequently used for testing if the trusted environment is required: BYOD, anti-cheat, antirootkit software, malware and DRM, etc...To have a red pill you usually need an uncompromised trusted real - time clock to be able to measure the time it takes to make some hooked action . If the clock is compromised the hypervisor can hide its presence by slowing the clock down in controlled way . </Li> <Li> Until they were removed from the Maemo operating system application installer in January 2010, certain advanced features were unlocked by a "Red Pill Mode" Easter egg to prevent accidental use by novice users but make them readily available to experienced users . This was activated by starting to add a catalog whose URL was "matrix" and then choosing to cancel . A dialog box would appear asking "Which pill?" with the choices "Red" or "Blue", allowing the user to enter red pill mode . In "Red Pill" mode, the installer allows the user to view and reconfigure system packages whose existence it normally does not acknowledge . In Blue Pill mode the installer displays only software installed by a user, creating the illusion that system software does not exist on the system . </Li> <Li> The choice between taking a blue or red pill is a central metaphor in the 2011 Arte documentary film Marx Reloaded, in which philosophers including Slavoj Žižek and Nina Power explore solutions to the global economic and financial crisis of 2008--09 . The film also contains an animated parody of the red / blue pill scene in The Matrix, with Leon Trotsky as Morpheus and Karl Marx as Neo . </Li> <Li> The term "red pill" has been used by people in the men's rights movement as a metaphor for the specific moment when they come to the belief that certain gender roles they are expected to conform to (e.g. marriage, monogamy) are intended to benefit women, not themselves . <Ul> <Li> The Red Pill is a 2016 documentary film about the men's rights movement . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> The term "red pill" or "red - pilling" is common on 4chan's "politically incorrect" / pol / board, where taking the red pill refers to being presented with both sides of an issue (usually with a particular focus on the controversial or unpopular opinion). </Li> <Li> "The Red Pill" is the name of a manosphere subforum on Reddit, emphasizing "pickup - style artistry". </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Blue Pill rootkit ("malware")--named in reference to the pill as are the Red Pill techniques used to combat it--is a special type of software that utilizes the virtualization techniques of modern CPUs to execute as a hypervisor; as a virtual platform on which the entire operating system runs, it is capable of examining the entire state of the machine and to cause any behavior with full privilege, while the operating system "believes" itself to be running directly on physical hardware, creating a parallel to the illusory Matrix . Blue Pill describes the concept of infecting a machine while Red Pill techniques help the operating system to detect the presence of such a hypervisor . These concepts were described by Joanna Rutkowska in 2006 . </Li>

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