BABEL v1.0.3

Item #: SCP-2380

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2380 is to be contained on Site-15 within a locked steel case with the dimensions of 3.7 x 3.7 x 1.4 inches. The case will be kept in a magnetically sealed room on a desk next to a consumer-grade personal computer. One Universal Serial Bus floppy disk adapter will be provided alongside the computer for testing. At no moment outside of given testing hours is the personal computer to remain powered on or plugged in to an outlet, nor are any instances of SCP-2380 to remain within the adapter without supervision of researchers.

Description: SCP-2380 is a set of ten (10) 3.5 inch ████ brand floppy disks, each rated for a capacity of 150MB (megabytes) of data. All disks are hand-labeled in black permanent marker with "BABEL v1.0.3 - MIT Prof. C. L. Maxwell '99." As inferred from the labels, SCP-2380 appears to be attributed to a Professor C. L. Maxwell at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, however following outreach from the Foundation, the Institution denies any knowledge of such professor. Investigation into the validity of this claim is ongoing.

The amount of data stored on each instance of SCP-2380 far exceeds the data capacity they are rated for, with the largest amount of data cataloged to date before console failure reaching █.█TB (terabytes). This amount has lead researchers to believe that the total amount of data of all instances could be in excess of ███TB. Due to the unknown but massive amount of data, viewing the contents of SCP-2380 on a console will eventually cause the console to crash once it exceeds the specifications of the console.

Contained within SCP-2380 is an unknown large amount of exclusively plain text files seemingly generated by a sequential program, much like those intended for brute force cracking. Virtually all plain text files contained are incomprehensible and meaningless. However, extensive exploration into all instances of SCP-2380 have yielded a few intriguing results:

+ Show Contents of Hh3Ddcv9l.txt - Hide Contents of Hh3Ddcv9l.txt Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. Costly thyy HAb1hg aSfb..,3 jkb7,gjdfks wkef… (file continues unintelligible)

Following recent research and test results, it is theorized that SCP-2380 contains generated plain text files of every possible text file of every conceivable organization of characters from the English character set. The means through which this process is conducted is as of yet unknown. Continued research into the anomalous properties of SCP-2380 is ongoing.