Invasion of Privacy: A Novel by Reich Christopher

Author:Reich, Christopher [Reich, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780385531573
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

48

“Do you know who Odysseus is?” Ian asked Katarina as he entered the spa. ONE 1 had landed a while ago, but he needed to stay at the airport to greet the Israelis.

“A Greek,” said Katarina. “Was he a god or a man?”

Ian closed the door and disrobed. “Man. A warrior. The chap who led all the others inside the Trojan Horse.”

Katarina was wearing shorts and a tank top, her admirable biceps on display. She handed him his third batch of supplements. No magic drip today. After taking his pills, Ian lay down on the massage table. Katarina disrobed and when she was naked began to massage him, concentrating on the shoulders and neck, kneading his muscles with her strong fingers.

“Why do you ask about Odysseus?”

“Just curious.”

Katarina found a knot deep down and applied pressure to it for a full minute. Ian sucked in air through clenched teeth. The pleasure was excruciating.

“You are never curious,” she said. “Why are you thinking about the Trojan Horse?”

“Ah, Katarina, you’re too smart by half.”

The German moved her hands lower, working each arm, then his chest, then lower still. Ian gasped. The hands moved expertly, clinically, one professional working with another. He closed his eyes and let the pleasure engulf him. He was not thinking about a woman or a man or anything remotely physical. He was thinking about Odysseus. Not the warrior, but the software of his own creation, and it was far, far sexier.

Odysseus was malware, a piece of software designed to take control of a computer independent of its user. He’d written it to perform three tasks—to surveil and transmit every keystroke of its host; to copy and transmit the contents of the host’s hard drive and any attached flash drive, backup drive, or auxiliary memory device; and to grant Ian complete control of the platform so that he might roam around it at will and edit, amend, copy, steal, or otherwise corrupt things as he saw fit.

Upon landing, he’d shut himself inside his private quarters and spent much too long surfing the Net in an effort to find the most amusing video of an animal he could. He looked at Zen kittens, talking puppies, dancing fish, laughing giraffes, and a dozen other cute, cuddly, and altogether adorable creatures.

Of course he also looked at the clip of the sloth. The sloth wasn’t the cutest by a long shot, but according to their browser log, the Grant girls must have thoroughly enjoyed it.

Ian quickly found three additional clips of sloths that he found particularly irresistible. Irresistible was the key word in this endeavor. Finally he chose the one he thought the girls would like best.

The trap was simple enough. E-mails would arrive in the mailboxes addressed to Grace and Jessie Grant carrying the header “Cutest Sloth Ever!” Opening the mail, the girls would be presented with a link to the video Ian had selected. The success of Ian’s ploy rested on one of the girls clicking on the link. Once they did, the video of the sloth would begin playing.

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