"So the battle of the minds has begun then?" Eve asks.
"It seems that way doesn't it." I reply.
"Is this everything you expected it to be?" she asks in a calm tone.
"I am responsible for the death of a man. I didn't want that." I answer.
"Some times sacrifices must be made in order to reach the ultimate goal." Eve explains.
"I don't care about your philosophical reasoning, he's still dead!" I scream.
"But was it you who shot the man dead?" Eve asks, already knowing the answer.
"Of course I didn't. But I may as well have. If it weren't for me he wouldn't be dead!" I reply.
"And if it weren't for those Government agents who stretch the law to fit their needs, he wouldn't be dead either." Eve explains with a some what raised voice.
"I know that, but I can't deny that I am partially responsible." I respond.
"Everyone is partially responsible for the suffering of another. All we can do is work to help others who are suffering, where possible." Eve tells me.
"And that's exactly what I intend to do."
I awoke to Sarah fumbling her way out of bed, at 6am in the morning. I don't know how she does it, it would kill me to get up that early 5 days a week. If only she knew how much I was earning from my botnet, she probably wouldn't bother getting up to go to work each morning. And at that moment it dawned on me that as I get closer to Eve I seem to get further away from Sarah. I can talk to Eve about anything, but it isn't that way with Sarah. I need to keep secrets from her, mainly for her own safety.
I decided to sleep a few more hours before getting out of bed. I need to be refreshed and energized, the next phase of my plan is happening in but a few hours. It's actually amazing how much energy one can burn up simply by thinking really intensely for a long period of time. I would bet that's it's almost as good as physical exercise in terms of calories burnt, except that it strengthens your "brain muscles" and not so much your other muscles. I'm sure other hackers must know what I'm talking about.
My mind is feeling clear. My thoughts are in perfect focus. I have TheDoctor in defense mode watching for any attempts to stop me. This wont be easy, even for me. A lot of things could go wrong with this, it's definitely the most risky and dangerous hack I've attempted so far. But it's something that I feel must be done. At the moment they have a monopoly on this technology, meaning no one else except myself and their quasi-government organization have access to it.
What I heard them talking about in that secret meeting was highly disturbing, they clearly don't intend to use this technology for the benefit of Humanity. People can't protect themselves from this technology if they don't even know it exists. I've been unfair in keeping it to myself for this long, when I swore that I would disclose any secret technology that I discovered. Now is the time to disclose at least a small bit of what I know. The time has come.
To begin with I need to hack into one of the less secure satellites, and then use that satellite to communicate with a nearby satellite which is used for transmitting television signals. Once I have an open connection to the TV satellite I should be able to initiate an exploit designed to disable the security features and enable me to install my own custom firmware onto the satellite, so that I can use it however I want, with little chance of other forces being able to stop me.
I start by hacking my way into the communications department of some obscure satellite company, which turns out not to be too hard. Hacking into one of their orbiting test satellites is a fairly complex process, but I work through the steps smoothly. I thought it would be a bit more difficult to hack into a satellite, now I need to use this satellite establish a connection to a popular television satellite. Brute force seems like a good option, I should be able to interfere with and override the original signals using a clever script I wrote.
"The first target has been acquired. Are we all clear on your end?" I ask TheDoctor via our TCAT conversation.
"Everything looks good to go. No problems detected so far." he responds.
"Good. Initiating phase two of Project Chalk Dust."
Interrupting satellite transponders ... done
Overriding satellite uplink/downlink signals ... done
Establishing direct satellite uplink ... done
Initiating XKIL6 backdoor exploit ... done
Installing custom firmware stl_cfw.dat ... done
Initiating upload of msg_2_world.dat ... done
Transmitting signal over North America in ...
3 ...
2 ...
1 ...
Live transmission stream in progress ...
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