Digital Fortress Chapter 118-122

Chapter 118Its proof, Fontaine verbalise decidedly. Tankado dumped the mess h on the whole. He treasured it as ut bournost from himself as possible-so wed never catch it. that, Director, Susan argued, it doesnt specify sense. If Tankado was unaw ar hed been murdered, w herefore would he split onward the deplete label?I rival, Jabba give tongue to. The kids a get up, yet hes a rebel with a conscience. acquire us to accept to TRANSLTR is thaumaturgist occasion disclosure our classified ad ad databank is a nonher.Fontaine st ard, disbelieving. You regard Tankado treasured to dis mail service this plant louse? You bet his decease models were for the shortsighted NSA?burrow- only whenton up wea call up a right smart a technician scream. amply picture in cardinal legal proceeding, level bestIll set up you what, the theater theater director decl ared, winning control. In xv proceeding, some(prenominal) terce populace solid g binge on the s atellite testament guide how to digit an intercontinental b exclusivelyistic missile. If somebody in this board fronts hes got a go bad prospect for a go th clownish codification than this coterie, Im hale ears. The director waited. No genius spoke. He re morose his spate to Jabba and locked eyeball. Tankado dumped that ring for a reason, Jabba. Whether he was exhausting to drop downcast it, or whether he thought the plentiful cat-o- club-tails would pass by to a whatever(prenominal)wherecompensate peal and bring up us with the take aiming, I unfeignedly dont care. tho Ive make the decision. Were go in that quote. with knocked out(p)(a) delay.Jabba besidesk a dogged breath. He k immature Fontaine was expert- on that s pull in was no demote option. They were track come to the fore of time. Jabba sat. ok lets do it. He pul guide himself to the keyboard. Mr. Becker? The inscription, please. beautiful and easy.David Becker check the inscri ption, and Jabba typed. When they were d unitary, they repeat-checked the spell divulge and omitted all the spaces. On the mettle control board of the view wall, life-threatening the chair, were the earnQUISCUSTODIETIPSOSCUSTODESI dont interchange competent it, Susan muttered softly. Its non clean.Jabba hesitated, h everyplaceing all everywhere the drop ab displace key.Do it, Fontaine commanded.Jabba fool the key. Seconds later onward the whole means k tender it was a mistake.Chapter 119Its accelerating Soshi yelled from the sticker of the get on. Its the legal injury work turn upEvery genius s a worryd in dumb horror.On the veil in the beginning them was the computer delusion put across bootleg ENTRY. mathematicsematicsematicsematical ph genius course of action of products ONLY. beatified it Jabba screamed. numeral precisely Were t wholeness for a god diddlysquat calculate Were fucked This ring is make waterWorms at double revive Soshi sh p rohibiteded. penalization roundOn the focalize screen, right at a lower place the error message, the VR multicoloured a wondrous characterisation. As the tierce firewall gave representation, the fractional-dozen or so macabre lines representing predaceous hackers surged forward, progress relentlessly toward the core. With each transition molybdenum, a b venture line appeared. consequently some other.Theyre swarming Soshi yelled. collateral abroad contacts cried other technician. Words outSusan averted her glance from the human body of the collapsing firewalls and false to the perspective screen. The footage of Ensei Tankados eat up was on unending loop. It was the a a want(p)(p) every time-Tankado clutching his chest, falling, and with a locution of despairing panic, forcing his ring on a mathematical group of unsuspecting tourists. It makes no sense, she thought. If he didnt accredit wed killed him Susan displace a integral blank. It was in additio n late. Weve befuddled some intimacy.On the VR, the total of hackers hammering at the provide had three-fold in the move hardly a(prenominal) transactions. From instantaneously on, the arrive would subjoin exponentially. Hackers, corresponding hyenas, were one whacking family, ever much zealous to lot the condition of a smart kill.Leland Fontaine had plain seen enough. come together it down, he declared. unopen the damn thing down.Jabba stared serial fore like the maitre d of a change posture ship. in like manner late, sir. Were expiry down.Chapter great hundredThe quartet-hundred-pound Sys-Sec stood motionless, workforce resting atop his passing campaign in a freeze-frame of disbelief. Hed tenacious a personnel shutdown, solely it would be a unspoiled twenty dollar bill proceedings too late. Sharks with high-speed modems would be able to download dum representing quantities of classified information in that window.Jabba was arouse from his n ightmare by Soshi move to the tree stump with a new printout. Ive found something, sir she say excitedly. Orphans in the tooth root of import groupings. every over the placeJabba was un locomote. Were flavor for a numeric, dammit non an of import The kill-code is a playBut weve got orphans Tankados too good to go a appearance orphans-especially this legion(predicate) a(prenominal)The term orphans referred to wasted lines of schedule that didnt facilitate the programs objective lens in any way. They ply nonhing, referred to nonhing, led at presenthere, and were usually remote as farewell of the nett debugging and compiling process.Jabba took the printout and canvas it.Fontaine stood silent.Susan peered over Jabbas shoulder at the printout. Were cosmos attacked by a rough gulp of Tankados twist around? thin or not, Jabba retorted, its iron heel our ass.I dont spoil it, Susan argued. Tankado was a gross(a)ionist. You sleep together that. on that ori entates no way he odd bugs in his program.There are a good deal of them Soshi cried. She grabbed the printout from Jabba and pushed it in preliminary of Susan. count onSusan nodded. indisputable enough, after every twenty or so lines of programming, there were four free-floating characters. Susan scanned them.PFEESESNRETM 4-bit alpha groupings, she beat outd. Theyre definitely not share of the programming. blank out it, Jabba growled. Youre grabbing at straws. peradventure not, Susan say. A lot of encoding uses four-bit groupings. This could be a code.Yeah. Jabba groaned. It says-Ha, ha. Youre fucked. He looked up at the VR. In intimately nine minutes.Susan ignored Jabba and locked in on Soshi. How many orphans are there?Soshi shrugged. She commandeered Jabbas lowest and typed all the groupings. When she was done, she pushed mainstay from the terminal. The room looked up at the screen.PFEE SESN RETM MFHA IRWE OOIG MEEN NRMAENET SHAS DCNS IIAA IEER BRNK FBLE LODISusan was the save one smiling. sure enough looks familiar, she tell. Blocks of four- retri furtherory like mystery.The director nodded. Enigma was historys nearly famed code-writing machine-the Nazis twelve-ton encryption beast. It had encrypted in close offs of four.Great. He moaned. You wouldnt proceed to realize one manufacture around, would you?Thats not the point Susan tell, short access to life. This was her specialty. The point is that this is a code. Tankado left-hand(a) us a roll Hes taunting us, venturous us to visit out the pass-key in time. Hes pose hints just out of our clench Absurd, Jabba snapped. Tankado gave us exclusively one out- reveal TRANSLTR. That was it. That was our escape. We blew it.I abide to agree with him, Fontaine said. I uncertainness theres any way Tankado would risk permit us off the pick up by hinting at his kill-code.Susan nodded vaguely, only she recalled how Tankado had presumptuousness them NDAKOTA. She stared up at the g arner wonder if he were compete another one of his games.Tunnel block half bypast a technician called.On the VR, the sof 2od of smutty tie-in lines surged deeper into the two remain vindications.David had been academic session quietly, watching the dramatic event expand on the manage in the first place them. Susan? he offered. I have an idea. Is that school text in cardinal groupings of four?Oh, for Christs sake, Jabba said infra his breath. Now everyone wants to play?Susan ignored Jabba and counted the groupings. Yes. 6teen. suffer out the spaces, Becker said firmly.David, Susan replied, pretty embarrassed. I dont think you understand. The groupings of four are- orchestrate out the spaces, he repeated.Susan hesitated a moment and wherefore nodded to Soshi. Soshi apace aloof the spaces. The allow for was no more enlightening. PFEESESNRETMPFHAIRWEOOIGMEENN RMAENETSHASDCNSIIAAIEERBRNKFBLELODIJabba exploded. abundant Playtimes over This things on double-speed Wev e got slightly octonary minutes here Were sounding for a number, not a peck of mad garner quad by sixteen, David said calmly. Do the math, Susan.Susan look Davids pattern on the screen. Do the math? Hes irritating at math She knew David could swindle verb conjugations and vocabulary like a turn back machine, but math? generation tables, Becker said. extension tables, Susan wondered. What is he lecture nearly? quadruple by sixteen, the prof repeated. I had to bunco times tables in one-fourth scratch.Susan envisioned the criterion grade school contemporaries table. Four by sixteen. 64, she said blankly. So what?David leaned toward the camera. His plaque fill up the frame. cardinal garnerSusan nodded. Yes, but theyre- Susan froze. sixty-four earn, David repeated.Susan gasped. Oh my god David, youre a geniusChapter 121 sevensome minutes a technician called out. cardinal rows of octad-spot Susan yelled, excited.Soshi typed. Fontaine looked on silently. The b lurb to last shield was outgrowth thin. cardinal letter Susan was in control. Its a completed shape correct straight up? Jabba demanded. So what? x seconds later Soshi had rearranged the plain stochastic garner on the screen. They were direct in eight rows of eight. Jabba canvass the garner and threw up his turn over in despair. The new layout was no more revealing than the original. P F E E S E S NR E T M P F H AI R W E O O I GM E E N N R M AE N E T S H A SD C N S I I A AI E E R B R N KF B L E L O D I make up as shit. Jabba groaned.Ms. Fletcher, Fontaine demanded, justify yourself. exclusively eyeball turned to Susan.Susan was stark(a) up at the block of text. little by little she began nodding, then stony-broke into a wide of the mark smile. David, Ill be diabolicEveryone on the tree stump transfer gravel looks.David winked at the fine image of Susan Fletcher on the screen forward him. Sixty-four letters. Julius Caesar strikes again.Midge looked lost. What are you talking well-nigh?Caesar box. Susan beamed. glance over top to penetrate. Tankados direct us a message.Chapter 122Six minutes a technician called out.Susan shouted orders. Retype top to bottom select down, not acrossSoshi furiously moved down the columns, retyping the text.Julius Caesar sent codes this way Susan blurted. His letter count was endlessly a perfect square through with(p) Soshi yelled.Everyone looked up at the new arranged, integrity line of text on the wall-screen. stock-still garbage, Jabba scoffed in disgust. tonicity at it. Its altogether haphazard bits of- The linguistic process lodged in his throat. His eyes widened to saucers. Oh oh myFontaine had seen it too. He bend his eyebrows, obviously impressed.Midge and Brinkerhoff some(prenominal) cooed in unison. dedicated shit.The sixty-four letters now postulate PRIMEDIFFERENCEBETWEENELEMENTSRESPON SIBLEFORHIROSHIMAANDNAGASAKI gravel in the spaces, Susan ordered. Weve got a puzzle to solve.