The Lafayette Deception, Chap. 9: Time In and Time Out!
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“That’s right, Vicky. Simple as that. So can you guys take it from here?”
“Sure thing, Frank. No problem, and great work!”
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In fact, it hadn’t been great work that had finally allowed him to crack the mystery of the flipping poll numbers. Just greater attention to detail. Once he had spotted the few extra bytes of code in the server’s time check code he knew that he’d found the chink in the system’s armor that the hacker had exploited. After that, it had been relatively easy to figure out what happened next.
As he stared idly out over the canyon, his thoughts kept returning to the mystery of who had pulled off the hack. For the moment, he was less curious about the intruder’s motivation, and that was more Marvin’s responsibility to figure out anyway. What he really wanted to know was who it was that had crafted such an elegantly simple and minimalist strategy for achieving their ends. It was as close to a perfect crime, in the information technology sense, as he ever expected to see. Full Story |
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