DEAD BEEF (Our Cyber World Book 1) by Eduardo Suastegui

Author:Eduardo Suastegui [Suastegui, Eduardo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Eduardo Suastegui
Published: 2014-04-28T22:00:00+00:00

Upon entering the cabin, they found Martin and Stan at the computers. Martin said he was checking on stuff. Stan was reading a news story on CNN that he wanted the team to see.

“Seems someone leaked that Martin fixed the L.A. outage,” Stan Beloski said.

Then Beloski read from the online article, “Information Technology expert and deposed InfoStream Corp (Milpitas, CA) Chief Scientist Martin Spencer has been credited with formulating and deploying the fix to the computer virus that infected the Los Angeles power grid system last night. According to multiple confirmed anonymous sources, Spencer, who was fired from InfoStream the day prior to the outage, single-handedly developed and launched a network antivirus solution that removed the virus attacking the power grid. Anonymous sources also state that Spencer performed this feat while located at an undisclosed location and without government cooperation or assistance, though the end results have met with preliminary approval by Cyberwarfare and information assurance government agencies.”

“Jesus, Joseph and Mary!” Ochoa said. “That is a massive leak!” He looked at Cynthia.

She looked at Martin, “Nice ghost-writing, Martin.”

Martin shrugged.

“They say three sources,” Beloski noted. “Martin would be only one.”

Martin shrugged. “You know how these things work. Someone sends an email to a blogger, they run with it, a reporter at a major newspaper contacts his source, which answers by email to give him a call, then they meet at a coffee house, and so on, or so on. The source gives the reporter another source to check out, and when confirmation comes it’s off to print they go. Sometimes it all happens with anonymous blog responses, in somewhat veiled but not at all sophisticated messaging. Conceivably, it might be theoretically possible for a hacker to spoof the whole thing.” Martin shrugged again, and Cynthia knew he was holding back a grin.

“The virus part is a little misleading,” Beloski noted.

“Technically,” Cynthia said. “It’s true enough for public comprehension. People get virus where they might not totally get the more complex terminology. It also borders on staying away from crossing bad, bad boy classification lines.”

“Who did this?” Ochoa asked, fixing his eyes on Martin.

“I did,” Sasha said. She was sitting up in bed.

Martin was the first one to reach her side. “Please lay down,” he said. “You need to rest.”

Sasha closed her eyes and said, “Whatever drugs you’re giving me, please cut it out. The room is spinning on me.” With Martin’s help she lay down.

“It’s the pain killers,” Ochoa said now also reaching her side. He touched her forehead and added, “Fever is gone.”

“I rather feel the pain, thank you,” Sasha said. “Someone I used to respect once told me pain is God's way of letting you know you're still alive.” Sasha opened her eyes and added, “Looks like I have a few visitors, Martin. Tell them to leave the flowers on the computer table. Then send them home. I need to pee and would love some privacy.”

Martin asked Leticia to stay behind and sent the others out. Sasha said something about the cute nurse outfit, noting that black was way hotter than white.

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