Whatever for Hire by R. J. Blain

Author:R. J. Blain [Blain, R. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B079VMZRJL
Publisher: Pen & Page Publishing
Published: 2018-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

Attacking Malcolm’s wallet classified as rude and unprofessional, but I had always wanted a space to call my own. In my entire adult life, I’d never had a desk and chair picked out for me and me alone. What started as an off-handed comment about how nice Malcolm’s home office was ended with his promise to take me to a furniture store so I could pick what I liked so I wouldn’t hold his couch and coffee table hostage.

I liked his couch and coffee table, too, but I kept my mouth shut so he wouldn’t interpret it as an excuse to get rid of them for something new.

“I don’t suppose you care to explain why you tried to buy the entire electronics store, do you?”

“Spite.”

“How charming.”

While most of my purchases wouldn’t be delivered until we returned from New York, I had enough to begin stripping away Malcolm’s misconceptions. I grabbed the bag with my necessary software, laptop, and recording devices, beginning the tedious process of setting everything up so I could enlighten him on the errors of his ways. “I’ll show you. Before I begin, I’m going to make it clear I’m pretty peeved you think I’m stupid just because I don’t have fancy pieces of paper saying I paid a school to make me look smart.”

Malcolm had the base decency to grimace at my accusation. “That wasn’t fair to you. I apologize.”

While petty, if he wanted me to accept his apology, he’d have to work a lot harder for it. I pulled out the receipt and pointed at the drone purchases before drawing his attention to my cameras and audio recorders. “I could probably rob a bank with these given some time and a few extra tools.”

That caught his attention, and his eyes widened. “What? How?” Crossing his arms over his chest, he directed his glare to the cameras, particularly the one that had cost him over a thousand dollars. “You can’t rob a bank with that stuff.”

“Get your laptop,” I ordered, snapping my fingers and pointing at the coffee table. He looked like he wanted to argue, but he got up and headed to his home office, grumbling complaints from the moment he left until his return. I left him stewing, setting up my new machine. Once it began installing updates, I pulled out the external drive and unpacked my new software. “If you want to rob a bank, you want to do it digitally. Electronic records can be modified, systems hacked, and funds relocated. Of course, the banks don’t want this to happen and take steps, but if you can get into the heart of their banking software, it can be done—and people have done it. Still do it. It has to be maintained to keep ahead of the developers trying to protect their systems against hackers.”

“You mean to take advantage of security breaches?”

“Yes and no. Step one is to pick the target. Banks are pretty good at catching mass theft. What you want to do is

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