The Madison Jennings Series Box Set by Kiara Ashanti

Author:Kiara Ashanti [Ashanti, Kiara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Six

Gyeong “George” Rhee shut down the communications packet and leaned back in his slick-styled, black X-Chair. He stared at the array of five flat-screen monitors set up like a four-leaf clover. Each screen was connected to its own dedicated server within the government facility where he worked. One monitored keyword searches and analyzed social media sites. It searched endlessly for a post, tweet, or comment praising radical Islam. If it found something interesting, it would flash yellow.

A separate screen trolled the web for actionable Intel on blogs. If a jihadist got a hankering to blow off a rant or make a call to arms to their brothers in jihad, Rhee would know. He monitored this feed with extra attention. Small- and large-scale events on the terrorism front were almost always advertised first, a fact that continued to amaze Rhee. Didn’t these crackpots know America and the rest of Western civilization monitored the web?

A third screen monitored domestic security camera feeds for intrusion attacks. Each cyberagent was assigned a territory to oversee. It was a massive human project, but necessary. Rhee had been integral in proving that fact six years ago.

The last two, including his central screen, were tasked with hacking into and shutting down terrorist propaganda on the web. It and the video intrusion detection were his specialties. It was how he and two friends, Mako and Dale, had become infamous. It was also how he had gained his adult working moniker, “Lockdown.”

That is what he did. If ISIS, or al-Qaeda, the undying terrorist group that arose from the dead like Friday the 13th’s Jason, or any other group tried to use social media, video sites, or blogs to spread their extremist views, he shut them down. For years, Inspire was the biggest propaganda site for jihad. Twitter, Facebook, and the FCC all made excuses for why they could not do anything about it: too large a space to monitor, against the First Amendment, not legal. The list was endless.

After the events that had introduced Madison into his life as a sophomore in high school, Rhee had taken matters into his own hands. He had ignored the government’s prohibition against him and his friends accessing computers, and they had begun to attack the sites. First they did so as members of Anonymous, but when it became evident that Anonymous was more interested in chaos and anarchy, they went out on their own.

This had led to more legal trouble for Rhee, but he did not care. He felt partially to blame for the events at the Palace Movie Theater. Government officials agreed and fast-tracked Rhee and his friends into working for them. It made more sense to use their skills for the country rather than to place them in jail.

Rhee worked at the Remote Operations Center for the Office of Tailored Access Operations at the National Security Agency. Mako was stationed at Homeland Security monitoring terrorist cells in Europe and the Baltic region. Dale had dropped cyberwar as a fighting tool and picked up an M4 rifle with Special Forces.

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