[ Thanks to Leers von
Gottheit for this link. ]
“Just as Bart Thatcher promised, Frank saw nothing but
forever when he looked to the west – simply wave after wave
of mountains and valleys extending effortlessly into the haze of
the horizon. From high above, where the branches of ponderosa pines
laced together, the squawks of scrub jays filtered down, along with
the dappling light of the afternoon sun. And next to him rested a
laptop connected to the outside world via the formidable
telecommunications resources of Frank’s improbable, but undeniably
useful, Solar Avenger.“Frank was already oblivious to the stunning view ahead of him,
now that he was focusing non-stop on cracking the secrets of the
Alexandria Project. His goals in that pursuit were clear: figure
out how those behind the Project penetrated their targets; devise
technical defenses capable of stopping them; and figure out who
they were and where they were striking from. Unfortunately, it
wasn’t going well.“The first task hadn’t taken long to complete. Sadly, any target
big enough to be interesting invariably had plenty of weaknesses
that any determined hacker could discover. Frank concluded that
that the Projecteers had employed a variety of fairly standard
methods to exploit flaws in the defenses of each of their victims
to date.”