Quantum by Patricia Cornwell

Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 40211891
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2019-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

“Not to me so far.” Butch has out another camera, begins taking photographs in situ of the badge and lanyard on top of clean white paper.

Probably the best thing is to process for prints and DNA back at our headquarters, I suggest. But the bigger question I raise is whether the smartcard might have been used anywhere it shouldn’t have been, especially while it was supposedly inactive.

“Yeah, don’t ask me what happened there,” Scottie says. “I promise I inactivated it the minute she called us yesterday late afternoon to report it stolen. But I’ve searched the security database, and the ID number originally assigned to her hasn’t come up anywhere since last night.”

“When she used it to return to Langley, to Building 1110,” I presume, and she confirms as I think about what else she just said:

“. . . The ID number originally assigned to her hasn’t come up anywhere since last night.”

The word assigned jumps out. It’s all too easy to forget that passwords, identification codes and numbers, and even radio frequency bands are assigned by humans who decide, for example, that 154.4075 should be for local police, fire and rescue. If the frequency band is for a radio station, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decides the call sign, such as the Howard Stern show.

It has two home frequencies on Sirius XM Radio, Howard 100 and Howard 101. Even the stars and planets have names and numbers that we decide. Kepler-186f, Gliese 581g, HD 40307g, Tau Ceti e, to name a few exoplanets light-years from here that might be earthlike, possibly habitable, and I’m reminded there are creative ways someone might try to outsmart NASA’s security system.

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