| From: | "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | More Thunda |
| Date: | Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:55:47 -0800 |
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+++++signal reroute: Minos-3
+++++signal reroute: Suzaku-12
+++++authorize <ENCRYPTED>...accepted.
+++++acquire DSDO49A:<ENCRYPTED>...alt/azm matched.
+++++enable: DSDO49A
We have now finished "processing" the data gained from the Fuchi datastore.
It pointed us at a particular Fuchi employee living in the area, whom we
arranged to have courteously interrogated and returned to his apartment with
nothing more than a hangover. To summarize:
There is significant involvement from a splinter faction of the Fuchi
bureaucracy involved in the Thunda case. Employees whose records were
archived in the datastore are:
+++++include records.archive.binary
I believe you have had dealings with Division Head Mifune, at the very least.
You will also note the complete security traces of the employees in question;
since these grant cart blanche to masquerade as the employee in Fuchi's
computer systems, it is our considered opinion that these were extracted as a
form of blackmail in the event that this project was blown. We have thusfar
refrained from using them.
Also in the datastore was the means to pierce Thunda's legerdemain and trace
his routing back another hop. The chaos with the Renton routing proved to be
but a minor inconvenience. We have now isolated his transmissions to the
Renraku Archology. We rate the security on his system as highly professional
work: cascaded black IC hidden in the bushes, roving smartframes playing
"Lassie", and several other hazards. However, we were able to ascertain that
the system is not a mainframe-class machine, but is rather some sort of deck
or small cluster of decks. More interestingly, the behavior of the IC seems
carefully attuned to blend into the Renraku scenery; being that it palpably
changes format _with_ the rest of their Matrix, we strongly suspect an
inside job by the Archology's Matrix-operations division.
The next step is to compromise the deck. The latest transmissions from Thunda
make it appear that his signal is originating from that deck, but I cannot
_guarantee_ this to be the case. I had to call in a personal favor to get
this, but the deck is located in room <ENCRYPTED>. If this _is_ where Thunda
is residing, a physical intrusion could be very messy; we can't know without
getting on-site and trying, though.
You call the next move.
]<<<<<
-- Dystropy Prime <19:25:26 / 01-07-58>
