Braking Day by Adam Oyebanji
Author:Adam Oyebanji [Oyebanji, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Thrillers, Suspense, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9781529417142
Google: Ao4-EAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B098PWRSC7
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2022-04-04T23:00:00+00:00
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Y ou canât hack a human being,â Boz said. âItâs not possible.â She was trying to light a cigarette, but shaking hands were getting in the way. The thin cylinder of tobacco slipped from her fingers and dropped lazily to the deck. Boz dived after it with a muttered curse.
Despite himself, Ravi could feel a small smile tugging at his lips.
âJust because you donât know how to do it doesnât mean it canât be done. Besides, youâre the gal who said someone had been playing house in my head, remember?â
Boz looked up from the deck plates, her expression sour.
âYeah, but I was thinking of the medics or the chipset maintenance techs. About some gullgroper messing about with the coding to your implants. I wasnât thinking about someone taking over your actual biological brain, making you hallucinate, and dropping real Archie-damned messages into your dreams.â She sat cross-legged on the deck, the retrieved cigarette back in her hand. âThere are like a hundred billion neurons in the human brain,â she pointed out matter-of-factly. âWith failsafes and backups and a bucket-load of self-protective mirror mechanisms. You canât just waltz in and hack them. And even if you could, do you have any idea of the processing power youâd need to pull it off? Itâs not possible.â
âAre you saying I havenât been hacked?â Raviâs voice dripped with irony. Strangely, even though abject terror would be more appropriate, the fact that his cousin, the fleetâs most incorrigible hacker, was confused beyond description struck him as funny. She looked like sheâd been hit upside the head.
Boz had finally lit her cigarette. She took a deep, calming drag.
âNo,â she said slowly. âYouâve totally been hacked. But sard me, Rav, it should be impossible. I wouldnât even know how to start.â Her expression became suddenly sly. âIâd know where , though.â
âWhat? â
âIâd know where,â she repeated. She rewound the logs to the first time the hacking signal appeared. âThink about where you were when this happened. You were halfway to the ass end of the ship. More importantly, because the routers in the engine rooms were down, you were out of range of the hive. All alone.â Bozâs expression became positively wicked. âAnd what did you do next? What did you keep doing? Again, and again, and again?â
There was a sinking feeling in the pit of Raviâs stomach.
âI kept reaching out,â he said wretchedly. âBroadcasting code for all I was worth.â
âExactly. And somebody picked it up. Your chipset was looking to make a connection, and they gave it exactly what it was looking for. That was their way in. And once they were in . . .â His cousin gave a resigned shrug.
Ravi wound the logs forward again. Now that he knew what to look for, there was no mistaking it. Every few sols, the hacking signal would appear, slightly different from the time before, more sophisticated, as if learning from its mistakes. And every time the hacking signal appeared, heâd had a weird dream or seen the girl.
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