Invasion of Privacy by Sutherland Ian

Author:Sutherland, Ian [Sutherland, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Crime, Mystery
Amazon: B00MDNGT1G
Goodreads: 22864724
Publisher: Brookmans Books
Published: 2014-08-02T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

The door to Crooner42’s apartment slammed shut behind him. He hurried passed the pinball machine while trying to unlock his smartphone. He miskeyed the passcode twice and had to stop and focus to get the right code. Once into the phone, he brought up the home automation app and clicked on the secret door icon. In front of him, the bookcase swung outwards.

As always, the bank of monitors displaying a selection of SWY locations greeted him.

“Hello world,” he greeted the wall of webcam feeds, laughing to himself. Like many people when they learn computer programming, his first ever program had been coded to output the words, ‘Hello World’ to the computer’s display. He had always remembered that day fondly — the newfound sense of achievement and purpose solidified in seeing those two words appear on the computer screen.

His good spirits were down to the fact that he had Fingal beaten. And he mustn’t forget dear Matt_The_Hatter. Yes, him too. He sat down at the laptop. It was time to log into the CrackerHack forums and claim his victory. Publicly take Fingal’s crown. After all, it had now been forty-eight hours since the SWY pwn challenge had been accepted. And so far, the site remained completely intact. Nothing had broken through his defences.

Another chuckle escaped his lips, as he navigated through to the correct forum.

Earlier this morning, just before he’d had to pop out, Crooner42 had deliberately posted aggressive taunts on the forum in an attempt to provoke a final response from Fingal. But the best he’d elicited were defensive statements from Doc_Doom on Fingal’s behalf. Crooner42 decided that after he’d dealt with Fingal, he’d go after Doc_Doom. That guy was a royal pain in the arse. Assuming he was even male; it was impossible to tell. Online, so many people pretended to be something they weren’t. After all, Crooner42 smiled to himself, he was an expert in that.

Crooner42 opened up another window and scanned the SWY logs one last time, just to make absolutely sure. He checked them for activity on the untraceable email address Fingal had used when registering on the SWY site. There was virtually no activity logged against the account, just a couple of logins earlier in the day and, as before, with the activity seemingly focused on the SWY location named Au Pair Affair. But, more importantly, his firewall logs showed that the unusual network activity from Fingal’s botnet had stopped altogether.

Yes, Fingal had given up.

He flipped back to CrackerHack and scrolled and paged through the chat feed. He thought about how he would phrase his claim for victory. Should he be humble? No way! Should he be completely arrogant or just matter-of-fact? No matter what tone he chose, this was going to be a massive blow to Fingal’s status in the hacking community. But Crooner42 wanted to milk it. He decided on utter and absolute arrogance.

He reached the bottom of the logs and suddenly spotted a post from Fingal himself. It was less than five minutes old.

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