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All good here? Quiet night? | All good here? Quiet night? | ||
The [[dashboard]] winks a cityscape. It tracks outbound and inbound comms and monitors all electronic traffic and scanning for the data signature of DOS attacks. They flash up restful blue as they bounce off the firewall. | The [[dashboard]] winks a cityscape. It tracks outbound and inbound comms and monitors all electronic traffic and scanning for the data signature of DOS attacks. They flash up restful blue as they bounce off the firewall. RAGs are green across the board, just how you like ’em, sir. | ||
The algorithmic honks. It flashes. It’s picked up an anomalous signal: activity on a recently decommissioned email account. This is usually from a departing employee. Once | “What’s your name, son?” | ||
“Jerry”. | |||
The algorithmic honks. It flashes. It’s picked up an anomalous signal: activity on a recently decommissioned email account. This is usually from a departing employee. Once off boarding due diligence complete, this is unusual, hence picked out. | |||
Querrell leans in. It's from recently-departed GC, David Bundie. He died three weeks ago in some [bizarre gardening accident]. The usual post exit monitoring routine should be complete. | Querrell leans in. It's from recently-departed GC, David Bundie. He died three weeks ago in some [bizarre gardening accident]. The usual post exit monitoring routine should be complete. | ||
“Esper in on that, Jerry.” | |||
Jerry Espers in: project greenwood. Hex id: 2D64783BC3755AA4 | |||
Jerry pricks up ears. Bundie’s — his slack channel account was active yesterday. Single entry: project greenwood. It has a hex id too. | |||
Querrell shrugs it off. “Likely phishing. Look, [[I have to hop|I gotta hop]] — | |||
“Boss it's 3 factor authenticated.” | |||
“So someone got his phone.” | |||
“We got his phone.” | |||
“It’s impossible: he has no access to the system. Jerry: it’s your job. Find it. Rogue LLM. Hackattack. And while you're at it, let's update the security protocols. | |||
Jerry says, “It’s for Boone. | |||
“What did you just say? | |||
At that moment, | At that moment, Querrell’s IM pings: Greenwood. Same hexadecimal. Weird. Querrell cross-checks the hex id: that's Barty Gould’s private directory . | ||
“Whoah”. | |||
Kid on the desk babbles about some LLM model the’ve been running to emulate the Dear Leader | |||
[[Bartholomew Gould]] has recently become co-general counsel with [[Chip Fryer|Genevieve “Chip” Fryer]], who until recently had been co-GC with Bundie. | [[Bartholomew Gould]] has recently become co-general counsel with [[Chip Fryer|Genevieve “Chip” Fryer]], who until recently had been co-GC with Bundie. | ||
Cutlet is a whiner. He has an opinion about everything but never puts his arse on the line. He continues to rue Bundie’s defenestration and laments Fryer’s lack of loyalty toward her old boss. But | Cutlet is a whiner. He has an opinion about everything but never puts his arse on the line. He continues to rue Bundie’s defenestration and laments Fryer’s lack of loyalty toward her old boss. But Cutler welched when he could have backed his guy. Always ensures someone else takes the rap, delivers difficult messages etc.When Cutlet hears of the Bundie message from Querrell, at first he is sceptical. “what some sort of ghost? Jesus.” | ||
Eventually he wants to see it for himself. | Eventually he wants to see it for himself. | ||
Elsewhere, the chief of staff Jolyon Gripper says farewell to favourite | Elsewhere, the chief of staff Jolyon Gripper says farewell to favourite son [[Roly Punchface|Roly]], who is departing a new role at head office. [[Roly Punchface|Roly]] warns his sister, [[Janice Henderson|Janice]], away from Cutler and his nefarious intentions towards her. | ||
Cutler gets a chat from Bundie, telling him how Gould engineered the [bizarre gardening accident]. Cutler swears vengeance. Bundie grunts you won't do anything. But you haven't got a choice. Hell come for you. | Cutler gets a chat from Bundie, telling him how Gould engineered the [bizarre gardening accident]. Cutler swears vengeance. Bundie grunts you won't do anything. But you haven't got a choice. Hell come for you. |