Connection Part I: A Dystopian Novel (Perfectible Animals Book 2) by Thomas Norwood

Author:Thomas Norwood [Norwood, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2014-08-03T06:00:00+00:00

A few hours later, Shy sat again in the boardroom of Youtopia.

“What the hell do we do now?” Shy said, after he’d explained to the others what he’d learnt.

“There’s not much we can do,” Soxy said. “It’s almost a given that once they take over Melbourne they’re going to cut off Youtopia access. They’ve done it in every other city.”

“There has to be something we can do,” Shy said. “I mean, I can always use a proxy and a compromised machine on their network, but what about all those other Youtopia users in Melbourne? I don’t know about you lot , but I would go crazy, if it weren't for access to Youtopia.”

There was agreement around the room.

“I’ve heard of Homo novus kids starting to suicide once their Youtopia access gets cut off,” Gretel said.

“Is that true?” Soxy said. “Because I’ve heard similar stories.”

“I think we need to conduct an investigation into that,” Dave said. “The problem is that once their Youtopia access gets cut off, then how do we contact them?”

“We need to get our own satellites up and running as soon as possible,” Patterson said.

The Inner Circle had worked out that the only way to continue to give everyone in the world unlimited free access to Youtopia was by operating its own wireless satellite network. The group had tried to make deals with some of the VSPs providing this service, but they were all either owned or controlled by the larger corps, which weren’t interested in giving anyone free access to anything. If Youtopia had its own satellites, it could broadcast day and night the world over.

“What we do now is start making money,” Dave said. “Serious money.”

“And how are we going to do that?” asked Soxy.

“Well, we could all go out and get a job for a living. Or alternatively, we can try to pull off some serious cybercrime.”

While a lot of Youtopia had been built on donations and volunteer work, quite a number of things couldn’t be paid for in that way and had been paid for instead by the proceeds of cybercrime. Dave, Dealer and Patterson, the three best hackers in the Inner Circle, were usually the ones responsible. They had all set some ground rules from the beginning—only hack corp accounts, only certain corps, never too much at a time, only what was needed, never hurt an individual, make it untraceable, etc. And despite the fact that many of them were uncomfortable with this necessity, they did realize that it was in fact a necessity if they wished to continue to keep Youtopia alive. Which all of them did.

“What have you got in mind?” Suzi asked.

“I’m thinking we go straight to The Corp itself. They want to take over Shy’s city, not to mention hundreds of others, including mine and Dealer’s, so why don’t we pay them in kind?”

“Yeah, and spend the rest of our lives in jail,” Soxy said. “Or even better—just plain dead.”

“That won’t happen if we’re smart about it. And besides,

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