The Haunting by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Monday, October 23

For the first time in weeks I met Mac and Trevor for lunch in the school cafeteria instead of heading to the library for a nap. I felt like we’d hit a dead end in terms of figuring out who’d been hidden in the hidden passage, but I wasn’t ready to give up either. What we needed was a new strategy, but first I wanted to solve Chelsea’s stalker problem. The fact that the stalker seemed to be getting bolder was causing me a fair amount of alarm, even if Chelsea wasn’t taking it quite as seriously.

“Here’s what I know so far,” Mac said as she nibbled on a plate of French fries. “As I already told Alyson,” Mac directed her comment to Trevor, “there are three people with access to the student passwords: the principal, the teacher in charge of the computer lab, and the IT guy, who works for the district. Someone is using a different student account each time an email is sent, so I have to assume the person sending the photos has access to all the student passwords.”

“Remind me to change mine,” Trevor commented.

“Won’t help,” Mac responded. “The passwords are stored in a file on the server and whoever has access to them has to have access to the whole file. If we could prove a breach we could get the administration to change the password to the file itself, but Chelsea doesn’t want her dilemma brought to the attention of the school administrators. Alyson has agreed to honor her request for the time being. If, however, it appears she’s in real danger, or if the photos become inappropriate, we’ll need to tell Chelsea’s parents what’s going on despite her wishes.”

“Okay, so how do we narrow things down?” I asked.

“I doubt that the principal, computer lab teacher, or district IT guy have been following Chelsea around, so we need to focus in on who might have obtained the password to the file from one of them at some point,” Mac answered. “I found out that the password to the database was changed at the beginning of the school year, so that means the stalker would have had to gain access to the new password within the past six weeks. I thought about just asking the three people we know have access if they’d given it to anyone, but they’d want to know why I was asking, and short of spilling Chelsea’s secret, I haven’t come up with a good story.”

“Were any of the emails Chelsea received sent from staff computers?” I asked.

“No. Chelsea’s received ten emails over the course of the past two weeks. Seven of them were sent from the computer lab, two from the reference computer in the library, and one from the attendance office. Every student on campus has access to the computers in the library as well as the computer lab, and student aides have access to the computers in the attendance office, I’m thinking the stalker is a student aide.

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