netwars--The Code 4 by M. Sean Coleman

Author:M. Sean Coleman [Coleman, M. Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-3-8387-5598-4
Publisher: Bastei Entertainment
Published: 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

BREAKING: CYBER TERRORISTS ACCUSE NCCU OF BLOWING UP POWER STATION

Franklin sat forward and reached for the remote control. He turned up the volume to hear the news presenter speaking in urgent tones:

‘… the allegation was made in a recorded announcement sent to the Sun newspaper a short while ago.’

The screen changed to show the clip of the statement that the presenter was talking about. A black-and-white, pixellated graphic of a Jolly Roger flag fluttered repetitively as a robotic computer voice read out the message:

‘We are Black Flag. Everything you have belongs to us. The NCCU cannot save you. They only wish to control you. They sell you fear and lies. Your leaders are corrupt. Your protectors are corrupt. Black Flag is the only truth.’

‘Arseholes,’ said Franklin, under his breath. The newsreader was back on screen.

‘The video arrived in the email inbox of a journalist at the newspaper, along with a collection of files and documents which the group claims is evidence of high-level corruption in the security services, as well as compelling evidence that NCCU incompetence led to the explosion in the power station. So far, the NCCU has been unavailable for comment.’

Franklin scrabbled among the missed call messages on his desk, trying to find a number for the journalist at the Sun; he knew he had seen one at some point in the day. The presenter continued to roll out the same old facts that they already knew about Black Flag, calling them an elite criminal hacker group and masterminds of organised crime in the dark cyber world. Franklin rolled his eyes at the laziness of it. They weren’t masterminds; they were criminals — pure and simple. He found the number and picked up his phone to dial. His hand hovered over the buttons as he saw his own face appear on the television screen.

‘In an interview on the day the new National Crime Agency’s Cyber Crime Unit began operating, then Deputy Director, Oscar Franklin, vowed that we would see an end to cyber terrorism in the UK.’

They faded up the volume on Franklin’s speech. He had been co-opted to do all of the publicity announcements for the NCCU because Sheila Davies refused to make any statements to the press. She hadn’t agreed with the formation of the NCA in the first place, and hadn’t wanted her own division sucked into the mire of what she called ‘another piece of political showboating which achieved nothing.’ Nobody had minded; Davies didn’t exactly have a press-friendly face. So Franklin had become the poster boy of the NCCU and now his words were being flung back in his face.

‘Today marks the end of organised cyber crime in the UK,’ he heard himself saying. His voice sounded proud and bullish — he hated hearing himself recorded, and he hated this interview. Parts of it had been repeated almost every time a charge was raised against the NCA. ‘All of you criminals out there, hiding behind your computers. We are coming for you. We will find you.

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