Well-Known Member
Allies: Silver Jedi Government, Military,
Adversary: [member="Jalek Sathora"]
Location: OSJ Government Bunker (Beneath the Capitol Building)
OOC
'Why do people feel the constant need to do things violently,' the blue slicer known in the community as H3xle, but currently in the persona of Daina Adcock, Vice President of Infrastructure Management for Corellia Digital, thought to herself as she stood well apart from the government employees that huddled over news feeds covering the action up on the surface. Her two droid assistants, a BB unit designated BB21 and a protocol droid designated C4-PI, stood near her with the eternal patience of near sentients with nearly unlimited bandwidth and the ability to play Holonet games in their heads. She called them Toon and Pie. When not on a business trip, she was often working on random upgrades to one or the other of them, and they were often very helpful in her less than licit activities. 'It's almost as if finesse were a thing people flat out ignored in the modern era.'
H3xle was watching the coverage as well, but she had AR glasses that let her smugly not have to crane her neck to watch a tablet or stare up into a screen.
Suddenly, her feeds started to go buggy.
"Hey, what's happening to the news feed?" One of the government employees she had been showing some of the newest Corellia Digital management hardware to said in his loud, nasally voice. It was quickly taken up by the rest of the employees in the bunker.
"Pie, check the Holonet connection." She told her protocol droid as she stepped back into the shadows and brought up her arm borne computer. They were on government servers, behind IC and Firewalls, but connected to the civilian infrastructure to allow communication. Her first glance through the system, which she wasn't supposed to have direct access to, showed nothing out of the ordinary on any of the Capitol's nodes. Tapping a few times on the screen, she brought up an AR display in her glasses and began to swipe, scroll, and pinch at the air.
"Ms. Adcock, there is an unknown disruption in the Holonet connection coming through public node Aesh-One Seven." Pie reported to her. She nodded and moved her display with a few deft movements to show her the node in question. There looked to be a program doing automated slicing work on the node. It had been tagged as suspicious by the nodes system, but no system admin had taken a look yet. As she watched, the automated slicing was replaced by swift, practiced activity and a second utility that spread to the nodes nearby more swiftly.
"Pie, Toon. Someone is hacking into the public nodes of the communications network. Find a terminal down here and connect to it. Lock down the government nodes connected to the public network." She looked around and found the government information technology agent that had brought her in to show Corellia Digitals wares. "Use my access...do you remember what we talked about a month or so ago, using hyperspace computations to generate secure keys?"
"Yes. You were postulating that using a set starting point in space, and calculating the trajectories a ship would need to make a hyper space jump to a system would provide a unique key that would be very complicated to duplicate due to the necessity to calculate real time data for hyper space jumps. A slicer would need to know not only the specific starting point and destination system, but also the precise point in time the jump would be initiated to be able to calculate the key...further..." The voice of her droid companion fell off as she motioned for him to stop. She was typing in the air on a pair of AR keyboards.
"Yes, exactly. I am sending you a starting point and a list of seventeen planetary systems. Rotate the keys generated using those systems. Do a hard link with Toon to increase the processing power." Pie acknowledged and Toon whistled as they took off for the communication terminal near the door of the bunker. At the moment, there wasn't much she could do for the public networks. Libraries, news networks, and personal holonet access would likely be corrupted, but her droids would be able to keep whoever was trying to take advantage of the distraction above from gaining free access to the government networks.
She approached Todd, her IT contact on Voss, and pulled him aside.
"Todd, you've got a problem." Todd looked askance at her, then over at her droids who were networked together and both plugged into the communications terminal.
"What's the problem?" He asked, masking the fear he felt quite well, though the strain in his eyes was obvious to H3xle.
"You've got a slicer trying to take over the planetary comm net. I don't know if it's an affiliated slicer with the group wrecking up the city above or just an opportunistic one, but he's got a sophisticated wurm burrowing through the public nodes and isn't half bad himself. I've got Pie and Toon playing keep away with the keys to the government nodes, but that's only a stop gap measure. I need you to get your system admins on rebooting as many of the public nodes from backed up images. That will reduce the power for the wurm to use and make it have to focus on taking those nodes back. I'm going to add my skills to keeping the government nodes from being taken." She spoke swiftly, but clearly. Todd looked a bit blind sided, but recovered well.
"Alright...I'll get those nodes turned over." He said, pulling a pad from his pocket and beginning to type into it. As H3xle was turning away, he looked up for a moment. "Daina...thank you."
She nodded, then moved swiftly over to her droids. She opened an auxiliary port on Toon and plugged her wrist pad into it as she settled onto the floor and leaned back against the wall. She then initiated her slicing package in the pad and began to work.
Working from inside the government nodes allowed her to move fast. She opened up code gates around each of the government nodes that touched the public networks. It was another stop gap measure, but one that was very quickly deployable, yet hard to circumvent without the keys that her droids were generating. She then let her fingers fly as she watched her visual display of the networks in her glasses, saving fresh images of the government nodes to her personal disk in case of corruption, then adding her skills to their defense.
Adversary: [member="Jalek Sathora"]
Location: OSJ Government Bunker (Beneath the Capitol Building)
OOC
Just a heads up, H3xle is a snarky one. Any snark present in the post is entirely IC and not meant to cause drama, salt, or bruised egos/feelings.
'Why do people feel the constant need to do things violently,' the blue slicer known in the community as H3xle, but currently in the persona of Daina Adcock, Vice President of Infrastructure Management for Corellia Digital, thought to herself as she stood well apart from the government employees that huddled over news feeds covering the action up on the surface. Her two droid assistants, a BB unit designated BB21 and a protocol droid designated C4-PI, stood near her with the eternal patience of near sentients with nearly unlimited bandwidth and the ability to play Holonet games in their heads. She called them Toon and Pie. When not on a business trip, she was often working on random upgrades to one or the other of them, and they were often very helpful in her less than licit activities. 'It's almost as if finesse were a thing people flat out ignored in the modern era.'
H3xle was watching the coverage as well, but she had AR glasses that let her smugly not have to crane her neck to watch a tablet or stare up into a screen.
Suddenly, her feeds started to go buggy.
"Hey, what's happening to the news feed?" One of the government employees she had been showing some of the newest Corellia Digital management hardware to said in his loud, nasally voice. It was quickly taken up by the rest of the employees in the bunker.
"Pie, check the Holonet connection." She told her protocol droid as she stepped back into the shadows and brought up her arm borne computer. They were on government servers, behind IC and Firewalls, but connected to the civilian infrastructure to allow communication. Her first glance through the system, which she wasn't supposed to have direct access to, showed nothing out of the ordinary on any of the Capitol's nodes. Tapping a few times on the screen, she brought up an AR display in her glasses and began to swipe, scroll, and pinch at the air.
"Ms. Adcock, there is an unknown disruption in the Holonet connection coming through public node Aesh-One Seven." Pie reported to her. She nodded and moved her display with a few deft movements to show her the node in question. There looked to be a program doing automated slicing work on the node. It had been tagged as suspicious by the nodes system, but no system admin had taken a look yet. As she watched, the automated slicing was replaced by swift, practiced activity and a second utility that spread to the nodes nearby more swiftly.
"Pie, Toon. Someone is hacking into the public nodes of the communications network. Find a terminal down here and connect to it. Lock down the government nodes connected to the public network." She looked around and found the government information technology agent that had brought her in to show Corellia Digitals wares. "Use my access...do you remember what we talked about a month or so ago, using hyperspace computations to generate secure keys?"
"Yes. You were postulating that using a set starting point in space, and calculating the trajectories a ship would need to make a hyper space jump to a system would provide a unique key that would be very complicated to duplicate due to the necessity to calculate real time data for hyper space jumps. A slicer would need to know not only the specific starting point and destination system, but also the precise point in time the jump would be initiated to be able to calculate the key...further..." The voice of her droid companion fell off as she motioned for him to stop. She was typing in the air on a pair of AR keyboards.
"Yes, exactly. I am sending you a starting point and a list of seventeen planetary systems. Rotate the keys generated using those systems. Do a hard link with Toon to increase the processing power." Pie acknowledged and Toon whistled as they took off for the communication terminal near the door of the bunker. At the moment, there wasn't much she could do for the public networks. Libraries, news networks, and personal holonet access would likely be corrupted, but her droids would be able to keep whoever was trying to take advantage of the distraction above from gaining free access to the government networks.
She approached Todd, her IT contact on Voss, and pulled him aside.
"Todd, you've got a problem." Todd looked askance at her, then over at her droids who were networked together and both plugged into the communications terminal.
"What's the problem?" He asked, masking the fear he felt quite well, though the strain in his eyes was obvious to H3xle.
"You've got a slicer trying to take over the planetary comm net. I don't know if it's an affiliated slicer with the group wrecking up the city above or just an opportunistic one, but he's got a sophisticated wurm burrowing through the public nodes and isn't half bad himself. I've got Pie and Toon playing keep away with the keys to the government nodes, but that's only a stop gap measure. I need you to get your system admins on rebooting as many of the public nodes from backed up images. That will reduce the power for the wurm to use and make it have to focus on taking those nodes back. I'm going to add my skills to keeping the government nodes from being taken." She spoke swiftly, but clearly. Todd looked a bit blind sided, but recovered well.
"Alright...I'll get those nodes turned over." He said, pulling a pad from his pocket and beginning to type into it. As H3xle was turning away, he looked up for a moment. "Daina...thank you."
She nodded, then moved swiftly over to her droids. She opened an auxiliary port on Toon and plugged her wrist pad into it as she settled onto the floor and leaned back against the wall. She then initiated her slicing package in the pad and began to work.
Working from inside the government nodes allowed her to move fast. She opened up code gates around each of the government nodes that touched the public networks. It was another stop gap measure, but one that was very quickly deployable, yet hard to circumvent without the keys that her droids were generating. She then let her fingers fly as she watched her visual display of the networks in her glasses, saving fresh images of the government nodes to her personal disk in case of corruption, then adding her skills to their defense.
