The Crystal Bridge (The Lost Shards Book 1) by Pulsipher Charlie

Author:Pulsipher, Charlie [Pulsipher, Charlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Singular Books
Published: 2014-02-05T23:00:00+00:00

Dr. Stephens flipped through the graphs that flickered in the air in front of him. “This isn’t possible. This all happened last night?”

The tech pulled up a multicolored screen showing a jagged line moving from the bottom left hand corner and climbing with peaks and valleys to the top right corner. “Yes sir. See here, the first spike began at 3:27am and the bandwidth climbed from there.” The young man pulled up another screen with a similar descending line. “And here, the access dropped off at 5:11am.”

“Do we know who did this and how? I thought our system couldn’t be hacked.” Stephens shook his head. He knew he’d have to tell Vander about the breach. And that will be unpleasant.

“We know who, but we’ve no idea how, sir.” He shuffled through more graphs and images, each one flashing across the holo screens, until he found what he looked for. “The hacker accessed the neural network and only tampered with one person’s projects. No one logged in. No one was even inside the BOCS. We—”

Dr. Stephens cut in. “I thought the neural interface didn’t work outside the BOCS?”

The tech looked Dr. Stephens in the eyes, visibly shaken. “It doesn’t. We have sensors that keep tabs on where every employee is in the building. The system doesn’t allow access to the BOCS outside those white walls, but somehow he convinced the system that he was in two places at once. It’s amazing sir.”

Dr. Stephens leaned forward and squinted at one of the graphs. He asked the question even though he thought he already knew the answer. “Who?”

“Dr. Iverson, sir. We’ve been watching his brainwaves closely since the surgery and—it’ll be easier if I just show you.” He pulled up the graph that showed the initial access again and then slid another next to it that looked very similar, but with several different colored jagged lines running across the holo-page. “This is Dr. Iverson’s brainwaves at the same time. They’re off the charts. We have no idea how he did it, but by this,” a circle appeared around a section of green jagged line, “we know he was asleep at the time and dreaming.”

“So you’re saying that one of our employees managed to hack into the most complex and sophisticated computer system in the world and he did so while sleeping?”

“Yes sir. It’s a little unbelievable, but we’re certain it was him. There are tiny moments when the system shows him in the BOCS, fractions of seconds, but enough to convince the computer that he was inside. We have no idea how.”

Dr. Stephens sighed. It’s our own doing, messing with his mind like we are. “Thank you. Send all of this,” he waved at the graphs in the air, “to my mobile inbox. I guess I’m off to see Vander again.”

The tech winced at the name and smiled a sad, sympathetic smile while gathering the graphs, reports, and images in the air and bundling them together with a wave. A gesture from the screen to Dr.

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