BITCOIN: The Magnet Snare by Hugan Kaiser

Author:Hugan, Kaiser [Hugan, Kaiser]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 43

V incent LeBlanc had experienced the biggest shock of his life. A secret software functionality he implemented himself at Congruous Computing had seemed to have been used in a super hack of LNX machines. The assembly code of the hack had looked as if the hacker had copied LeBlanc’s own code.

For a software functionality, programmers could implement it in a myriad of different ways with exactly the same algorithm and logic. But the hacker’s code was practically the same implementation as LeBlanc’s. Even the registers used for storing specific data elements were exactly the same. LeBlanc had scattered his assembly code over a number of files to hide it. But It looked like the hacker had done the opposite, gathering the pieces together, as it appeared in LeBlanc’s binary code capture.

With this super hack, all confidential information maintained by the OS kernel was exposed to the hacker. Private keys, user accounts and passwords, and everything else requiring confidentiality were at the hacker’s finger tips. Even confidential info not saved in the system but entered manually at a terminal could be intercepted in the kernel. Nothing could escape, nary a bit.

LeBlanc figured the hacker had probably used the new diagnostics Socket interface of the Ethernet adaptor to load the hack code into the kernel. The hacker might have used a backdoor in some application running on the machine to access the Ethernet adaptor diagnostics interface. But that was not LeBlanc’s main concern at this point.

What shocked LeBlanc most was his own code seemed to have been used in the hack. How did it happen? The hacker was unlikely to have programmed it in exactly the same way.

LeBlanc could not think of any software engineer at Congruous Computing who would have been able to find the code he had well hidden. The only possibility left for him was that the code had come from Kyle Huffman, his long-time idol.

He remembered the criticisms Kyle Huffman had leveled at Block Chain/Bitcoin. He also remembered his last phone call with Huffman, after he had mulled over Block Chain/Bitcoin and the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Huffman had sounded eerily blasé and nonchalant about the topic of Block Chain/Bitcoin. When he told Huffman Satoshi Nakamoto might be a codename for a NSA project, Huffman paused a little, as if caught off guard, and then told LeBlanc he had to run for a meeting. Huffman had said he would call back to talk about it later. But Huffman had never called him back.

LeBlanc also remembered Huffman had gone on a few marketing trips to the NSA before, to help promote Symphony. That led him to question if Huffman had anything to do with the NSA.

That seemingly simple and innocuous question precipitated a wild thought in LeBlanc’s head, because LeBlanc already suspected that the NSA might be behind Block Chain/Bitcoin.

The NSA had been suspected of having infiltrated TOR networking of the world, making networking anonymity of TOR questionable. Satoshi Nakamoto had used TOR networking to cover up his tracks.

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