Shodan didn’t appear to mind, as he waited to find out what would happen next, another message popped up: “You’ve been asking about Bitcoin on the forums. I don’t know how much you’ve googled on the subject, but I think that I can answer most of your questions directly if you don’t want to wade … Read more
Special Agent Ellis Warren found himself clearly out of his depth. Years of training as a field operative, extensive hand-to-hand experience, and seminars in profiling aggressors didn’t give him any edge against the pixelated fox-like creature on his computer. He’d spent the better part of the day trying to get into a discussion with the … Read more
“Schemes involving code breaking, I suspect,” she said. “I watched this World War II documentary on the History Channel where they talked about Enigma Machines and codes…I think that’s what they were working on. He and the rest of his Poker Night buddies—I’m not sure what they do on their Poker Nights, but it’s not … Read more
“That horrible man!” the woman burst out. She lurched such that it almost seemed as if she might drop the phone again (Agent Toller even tensed to catch it before it hit the ground) but her grip had become so tight her knuckles went white. “I aught to go over there and flay him alive … Read more
When Agent Kathy Toller disembarked the hybrid car she no longer looked like she actually intended to shoot Agent Ellis Warren for interrupting her “me time” with the Tom Clancy spy novel—instead, he’d given her something even better to read: the financial document report for one of the conspirators who’d rented the van that gave … Read more
“I think that her friends are onto me,” Agent Warren said aloud as he leaned back from the computer and stretched. Never before had he spent so much time staring at a computer screen in his whole career—or at least, he reminded himself, when he did so it wasn’t in a dark hotel room. As … Read more
Agent Toller waited for him to grab his latte before she waved hers at him speculatively. “I take it that Harwood is sticking to his man-of-little-action routine again?” She, of course, referred to the Dean of Engineering, one Richard Harwood, and possibly the least exciting surveillance subject that Agent Warren had ever found himself the … Read more
Elaine shook her head. “If someone is spying on him by leaving bugs in his office,” she said. “It would take some intense training and habit changes for him to address his own personal security.” “Still have your mind on that bug we found in his office?” Frog caught the pillow, set it to the … Read more