Starfade by Gary Swaby

Author:Gary Swaby [Swaby, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space opera, cyberpunk, spacepunk, Sci-fi
ISBN: 9781916006614
Publisher: Redital Publishing
Published: 2019-03-21T22:00:00+00:00

Back in the server room, Chiaki reconnected her Comm-link to the terminal. Tobi was now able to read what was written on the screen back to her. He read the large wall of text, which was a checklist of processes running in the facility.

“It’s also saying that the alert systems have been activated and that reinforcements have answered the call,” said Tobi.

Chiaki couldn’t deal with the pressure of a Thundercloak taskforce on its way to wipe her out so she chose to ignore that for now and focus on the hack. “How do we get past the screen?”

“Press the U key,” he said. She did as he was told, and then she was presented with a login screen. She looked down at her Comm-link and saw Tobi’s swirling icon, which meant that he was already attempting to get past the terminal’s security.

“There’s a firewall here, we’re going to have to get through it,” said Tobi.

Chiaki tapped the home screen on her Comm-link and navigated to her file system. She opened up a malware code that she’d written previously, one she was proud of. In order for the malware to work she needed to make some modifications so that it would recognize that the terminal was running the Vertex+ operating system. “Tobi, run Starfade,” she said, referring to the malware by its name.

Tobi’s swirl blinked on screen and she waited for Starfade to do its magic. The malware would figure out which packets were able to be received by the terminal and clone them, tricking the system into granting access to Chiaki’s Comm-link. By the looks of the facility, she guessed that the firewall wasn’t updated frequently, meaning it would be easier to exploit.

Her assumptions were proved correctly when Tobi displayed a happy face emoji to her on the Comm-link screen. With the firewall compromised, she could now work on cracking the admin login account. She ran her brute-force cracking software from her Comm-link and watched as it cycled through numerous character combinations in search of the correct ones for both the username and password; this would take some time.

“While we wait, I could read another log from the files we recovered earlier,” said Tobi. “With the language pack I am able to decipher much more of them.”

“Go for it,” Chiaki yawned.

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