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>> Todd: Take their advice
Returning to his workstation, Todd accessed a shipping manifest that he'd acquired about a month ago. It was for a mid-sized production firm, specializing in military-grade materials. There was a small order going to a private testing lab, in the form of some experimental Stormtrooper armor plates.
Interchangeable and easy to swap out if damaged, they were easily recycled into the strong plastic they had been formed from, and either remolded into new plates or made into other parts. They'd be fine for use on something as simple as a hoverboard.
Hacking in and changing the shipping manifest to redirect it to his friend's address, Todd reclined in his hoverchair and kicked the footstand up, closing his eyes. He slipped his glasses off and set them aside, yawning and settling down to catch himself a nap.
Completely oblivious to the problem that he hadn't yet payed up on his lost bet from earlier.
>> Todd: Realize that you forgot something
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>> Todd: Realize you forgot something
Sitting bolt upright, Todd was reminded of the fact that he'd forgotten to pay his bet by the aggressive-sounding alert that just popped up in his info feed. He nearly capsized his hoverchair as he scrambled to get to his computer and halt the intrusion. If these guys didn't get their money, they'd get it other ways.
Fortunately the budding black marketer's proxy server handled the load of the relatively primative DDoS attack that had been targeted at his system, and he was able to isolate and neutralize the hacker's virus as its diversion was sucked away and dealt with on a separate server.
Todd swiped aside his holokeyboard, revealing a flat surface littered with holoprojections of stats on the attack. He'd heard about these smoke screen-esqe attacks on several larger-scale servers, where a large but weak general attack was made to clog up servers and conceal a more direct and focused hack, which targeted the more important files on a server, be them industrial secrets or his activity logs, which would get him locked up in an Imperial prison in a heartbeat, or eliminated as a threat to the empire.
He shook his head, clearing it and getting back to the virus at hand. He manipulated the holoprojecton of the virus, digital code turned into a facsimile of a living object for ease of viewing. Todd picked apart the holovirus piece by piece, pulling parts of its code guts out and glancing over them, looking for the trademarks of any of the empire's comissioned hackers, or any of his competitors in the black market and betting rings. Not noting any immediately, he plucked the hologram up and stuck it in a holographic slot on the surface, for further examination.
With one emergency neutralized, Todd payed up on his bet along with some extra as a late fee. Relaxing backwards once more, he hoped to get a least a little shuteye before the bustle of his little world started up again.
>> Todd: Receive promotional materials
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>> Todd: Receive promotional materials
Tod's hadn't had a few moments to rest his eyes before he was awakened once again. The offender in this case was a neon-hued advertisement for a game called OSburb. It was very bare bones and without description except for the brightly colored text.
After running his plethora of security programs over the ad to make sure it wasn't any kind of virus, he hesitantly clicked on the link. The description was minimal, and the only real hint that pointed to its origin was that he'd been referred by a friend. He pulled up pesterOmni and checked his contacts but none of them were on at the time so he'd have to figure out who referred him later and ask them some questions.
He left the programs open and swapped to another browser, figuring he'd get started on some other work rather than try to sleep any more.
>> Todd: Recommence daily routine
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