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===Act I=== | ===Act I=== | ||
Late at night, [[SME]]s | =====Scene I===== | ||
''Infosec control room at Wickliffe Hampton.'' | |||
Late at night, infosec [[SME]]s scan banks of monitors. It's hot — the Aircon is on the Fritz. The antivirus crawlers do most often work. Shift manager Horace Querrell, arrives at the control room. The staff shape up double quick, bin the donuts and jazzmags and stand at attention. | |||
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 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 offboarding due diligence complete, this is unusual, hence picked out. | |||
Querrell leans in. It's from recently-departed GC, David Bundie. He left three weeks ago. The usual post exit monitoring routine should be complete. | |||
Esper in on that 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. At that moment, a new chat appears on Querrel’s personal channel: greenwood. Same hexadecimal. Weird. Querrell cross-checks the hex id: that's a private directory of Barty Gould. | |||
It's Bundie — the lads were fond of Bundie, in awe of him — impossible: he has no access to the system. It’s 3FA. Querrell bless them off: Rogue LLM. Hackattack. Let's update the security protocols. That chat keeps coming. It is personal. Querrell’s IM pings. “Whoah”. | |||
[[Bartholomew Gould]] has recently become co-general counsel with [[Chip Fryer|Genevieve “Chip” Fryer]], who until recently had been co-GC with Bundie. Cutlet continues to rue Bundie’s defenestration and laments Fryer’s lack of loyalty toward her old boss. When Cutlet hears of the Ghost from Squerrell, he wants to see it for himself. | [[Bartholomew Gould]] has recently become co-general counsel with [[Chip Fryer|Genevieve “Chip” Fryer]], who until recently had been co-GC with Bundie. Cutlet continues to rue Bundie’s defenestration and laments Fryer’s lack of loyalty toward her old boss. When Cutlet hears of the Ghost from Squerrell, he wants to see it for himself. | ||