>>5170920When you load in the portable suite of malware that you keep handy, something just clicks. Maybe Gremlin gave you a bit of his mojo, or maybe you’re just totally in the zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgUXQt7pJUYou make a mockery of any boundary and every safeguard that tries to get in your way. But instead of bulldozing through them and setting off a truckload of alarms, you pursue a more insidious path.
You weave a tangled web of malware, carefully infecting key nodes with intricately tripwired logic bombs and other nasty tricks that Gremlin taught you.
Just to be on the safe side, you program in a timer so that it won’t trigger while you’re still on the premises. Don’t want to accidentally blow your cover.
When some unlucky bastard triggers any, it’s liable to fry his entire computer as well as anything said computer is connected to.
And you’ve practically layered them into the fabric of the system. If any of this equipment survives the blast, they’ll still have to scrap it and start anew.
That alone would’ve been bad, but then you discover a backdoor into the outgoing inventory files. Your access is limited, but you make the most of it, sending important resupply deliveries to the wrong locations, scrubbing random orders, creating fake ones, anything and everything you can to ruin their recordkeeping.
If you had stopped there, the breach would’ve been a major blow, but something that could eventually be recovered from.
But then, you discover the Holy Grail. An outgoing connection that links the system to their entire military supply chain network.
Every branch. Every outpost. Every unit.
All relying upon this single piece of software that you’ve stuffed to the gills with the nastiest viruses you know of.
When this spreads, it’s going to be international news. There’s a non-zero chance that you might cripple the entire military logistics chain. Possibly even permanently depending on how quickly they respond. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated Pedraza’s propaganda pipeline is, this is the kind of thing that makes people stand up and notice.
If you go through with this, you will be the architect behind one of the most damaging cyberattacks in human history.
When you enter the confirmation command, you feel like you’re on top of the world. Holy shit, is this what Gremlin does all day!? Because you’re starting to get it.
After realizing that the tech will probably be returning soon, you quickly scrub all trace of your involvement and leave his terminal just as you found it.
Before you make your escape, is there anything else you’d like to do while you’re still in the building?
> No, this mission was an unmitigated success. Time to head home.> Other? 