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The other is to turn the power off and back on.

For 60 seconds, while the hardware reboots, the entire home network

is completely insecure because the firewall software loads last.

The point isn't the method. It's the potential.

There's always a way in.

It might be a bit of a moral grey area to use one of the few

socially promoted bastions of free information to hack.

Or, it might be perfectly inline with the ideas of the librarians.

Who knows? I don't ask.

The point is, I'm not doing this from home.

I'm not destroying Mrs. Dempsey; she did that on her own.

I'm just exploiting the vulnerability her carnal excesses created.

Do you know where the weakest link in any security system is?

It's you, with your shitty passwords

and how you share every part of your life online

from geotagging everything you do, to a photo you post of your new ATM card.

And your willingness to click on links that promise something you want.

And now I own Sam Novak's computer.

Whoever he is.

Arthur C. Clarke wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology

is indistinguishable from magic.

This is where we make the magic.

Anyone heard of Emergent See?

Emergent See.... Big. Ugly. Nasty government contractor

Data-mining. NSA. CIA. Hardcore combinatorial math.

Is that it? Just data-mining?

What's your interest in Emergent See?

Oh. Just a side project I'm working on.

Tell me that you're using the neighbor's Wi-Fi.

Uh, yeah.

I need a drink.

Anybody else?

So, what's the uh... great LU$er up to tonight?

Finished with that client Decimate sets you up with?

This afternoon. How did you know about that?

Bitchan told me.

She a cheating slut?

Yeah. Something like that.

But, you'll never guess with who.

Does it matter?

Sam Novak.

Don't know him.

CTO of Emergent See.

No sh*t!?

I rooted his office computer this afternoon. I'm searching their network right now, as we speak.

Oh, no. Will, no, no.

I told you I wasn't.

It's too heavy for Backdoor.

I'm not using your network.

Yeah. And Hash told you what Emergent See does.

Large-scale data-mining. That means NSA. They'll find the intrusion.

If anyone sees anything, they're just going to think that Novak has his own botnet.

Fine. I think you can do it.

And I think you can get away with it. But, not here.

What is your problem?

Not. Here.

I don't go on dates. I don't go clubbing.

I don't care about celebrity hookups or which sports team just won.

My universe exists entirely within computers.

The moment we come up with a way to not have to eat, or sleep

or any of the other things required to stay alive... I'll be the first in line.

And by in line, I mean online, breaking in and reading about it.

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