Would I Lie to You? (The Game Players Book 1) by Brad Vance

Author:Brad Vance [Vance, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Hacking Chip’s personal history was a piece of cake. After all, Chip had given him all the information that he needed – DOB, SSN, schools attended, addresses lived at. It was the kind of info that Jesse was used to finding other ways, of course. Recycling programs had become God’s (or the devil’s) gift to identity thieves. Those lovely blue cans meant that all the discarded, unshredded power bills, charge card statements and check stubs were no longer mixed in with the eggshells and chicken bones.

And, the dumbasses, they put their cans out at night, to boot, instead of first thing in the morning. People, it seemed, were practically inviting folks like the Winchesters to come along at 3 am and steal their identity.

The picture of Chip that emerged was slightly different than the one Jesse expected. Jesse had become familiar with a certain type in his various high schools – the “striver,” a child of the lower middle class who had the intelligence to vault himself out of it, if he Always Followed The Instructions and Colored Within the Lines. As someone who’d played The System all his life, Jesse knew who The System rewarded and how.

Chip had done what he was supposed to do, for the most part. All his extracurricular activities displayed both Ingenuity and Compassion For Others, as well as Diversity Of Experience. His science fair projects were dedicated to cleaner water and solar power for “the developing world,” as his can-do poster boards would optimistically call the more godforsaken parts of the planet.

But there were bumps in the road. Bumps that, Jesse found, were smoothed over if you only looked at the public record. Jesse had a word for those who never deviated from the path set out for them – Transcriptarians, which sounded like a religion because it was. These were kids who’d never smoke pot in a dorm room for fear that one of the other kids would rat them out when they ran for President, the kids who’d never take a difficult class with a difficult teacher if they didn’t have to, if there was any risk whatsoever that they would get an A minus and ruin their GPA.

But Chip had blasphemed against The Transcript. Sealed juvenile records weren’t easy to get into, but Jesse could triangulate certain events, using arrest notices in local media referring to “a juvenile” who had been caught doing things few people could do – like hack school records, or teachers’ Facebook profiles. Enough to send most Transcriptarians straight to the eternal Hell of state college and middle management, but not Chip…

Chip had a good lawyer, it appeared. All of it had been smothered. There wasn’t even any mention of it in his high school records (an effortless hack for Jesse, as local government salaries were never enough to pay for anyone who was any good at cybersecurity).

Chip had been raised by a single mother, a secretary who had suddenly become a stay-at-home mom around the time Chip went to high school.

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