Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 15:35:19 GMT -8
She ran into the room to the surprise of whoever was in Computer Support and rushed to a console that was suitable for what she needed to do. She put her game face on as she decided to treat this as one of her projects. ‘No, it is just like one of my projects’. She took a deep breath and her fingers danced on the console as she transferred data from Emilie and the other PADD. She accessed Emilie for tools that were not on the console. Some of Caroline’s tools were Federation standard. Some of her tools were ones she designed herself for various purposes. That set of tools is Emilie. One of her last projects upon her degree fulfillment was the project where she designed and built her own PADD with a lot more processing speed. It needed charging more often but the circuit design melding three microprocessors got her the A in that class. The programming behind Emilie is another story. They included any number of scripts and programs designed to crawl into and analyze a program and or file. The other PADD, which is standard federation issue, she had data stream analysis running for signs of that header and where it entered with that particular header. Using one of her hack tools she started to attempt to break the encryption with algorithms to find a key. Encryption keys were usually complex on purpose but all of them followed some method or pattern of some kind. Good encryptions thwarted attempts to locate a key by various methods including obscure references or competing algorithms that change but even those changes were at regular intervals. Most hackers avoided the difficult ones. In the game of ones and zeros, the one that got away was usually the hacker who cracked the code for the sake of cracking it. On another part of the console she had it running a scrub program with the signature of the file to remove it from the ship’s systems. That might take a bit too, as she was going to make darn sure It was not going to be buried in the Core anywhere.
The smaller PADD beeped. It stopped at starboard data port and stalled. She worked on looking for the blockage. ‘Damn there is a complete lockdown of SGE.’ She turned to another console that was close to her, and narrowed the data stream to those matching the call set up mode that would identify it with the next gate it passed through. It had SGE configuration in that segment. Emilie started making noise as she hit a snag. She glanced over it as the hacking tool only got so far. The encryption was not standard anything. It was a custom encryption. ‘Oh need the big guns,‘ she thought, as she looked at the encryption. ‘Breaking this is not going to be easy.’ She hit her communicator to give her Chief some kind of data.
//LT Bartlett to Lt Commander Sur’Shess: Preliminary findings suggest the file was transmitted off the Talon, ma’am. Its heavily encrypted. The encryption is not Federation. It is not standard anything. I haven’t been able to do a full trace as the Starbase is locked down totally. It will take creative measures to complete the trace and other creative measures to decrypt the file. I also took the liberty of starting the scrub of the ship’s system of the files aside from the one I am working on.//
She swallowed as she hoped it would be enough. She seemed determined but she needed to know how far Liz really wanted her to go. She had done her fair stent at hacking. The bad hackers were the individuals who got caught. The good hackers were the sort you never hear about. They get in, get what they want and leave. Usually it’s information or just the thrill of getting into something heavily secured. She never got caught. A mouse knows how to get around in places that no one can get into as it’s too small and out of the way. In the game of ones and zeros, she was very good.
Tag: Lt. Commander Liz Sur'Shess
The smaller PADD beeped. It stopped at starboard data port and stalled. She worked on looking for the blockage. ‘Damn there is a complete lockdown of SGE.’ She turned to another console that was close to her, and narrowed the data stream to those matching the call set up mode that would identify it with the next gate it passed through. It had SGE configuration in that segment. Emilie started making noise as she hit a snag. She glanced over it as the hacking tool only got so far. The encryption was not standard anything. It was a custom encryption. ‘Oh need the big guns,‘ she thought, as she looked at the encryption. ‘Breaking this is not going to be easy.’ She hit her communicator to give her Chief some kind of data.
//LT Bartlett to Lt Commander Sur’Shess: Preliminary findings suggest the file was transmitted off the Talon, ma’am. Its heavily encrypted. The encryption is not Federation. It is not standard anything. I haven’t been able to do a full trace as the Starbase is locked down totally. It will take creative measures to complete the trace and other creative measures to decrypt the file. I also took the liberty of starting the scrub of the ship’s system of the files aside from the one I am working on.//
She swallowed as she hoped it would be enough. She seemed determined but she needed to know how far Liz really wanted her to go. She had done her fair stent at hacking. The bad hackers were the individuals who got caught. The good hackers were the sort you never hear about. They get in, get what they want and leave. Usually it’s information or just the thrill of getting into something heavily secured. She never got caught. A mouse knows how to get around in places that no one can get into as it’s too small and out of the way. In the game of ones and zeros, she was very good.
Tag: Lt. Commander Liz Sur'Shess