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Val wrinkled her nose as Sadaet lit up a cigarette; since she was a kid she’d never understood some folks fascination with poisoning their organics with cigarettes. Alcohol could at least get you drunk, loosen you up a bit; all tobacco did was fuck up your body and make you stink. In that vein, she [I]did[/I] do as Sadaet said and shut down her olfactory receptors…which improved her mood greatly.

[colour=43BFC7][b]”Don’t mind if I do.”[/b][/colour] She replied, as he offered her a chair. Sitting carefully, she’d broken more than one chair by sitting too heavily, she [I]was[/I] a fair bit heavier than she looked, she looked over the pieced together rig until she saw a data port. [colour=43BFC7][b]”Let’s see what sort of fun we have here.”[/b][/colour] She added, interlacing her fingers and ‘cracking’ her knuckles, rather unnecessarily. 

Reach up to the base of her skull, she pulled a data jack out, the retractable cable disappearing into her hair. Plugging the cable into the rig she began typing at a furious pace, the screen before her flickering madly as she opened and closed dialogue boxes, implementing a whole series of tasks before ever going [I]near[/I] the encrypted data.

First, even though it was an isolated system, she created a virtual hard drive for the data to isolate it from the rest of the machine. She then downloaded a couple types of military-grade firewalls from her own system and wrapped them around the virtual drive. Once those were up and running to her satisfaction, she shielded her own connection with a barrier of her own design.[colour=43BFC7][b]”Quarantine online…”[/b][/colour] She muttered before realizing, unlike normal, she had an audience. [colour=43BFC7][b]”I know the rig is isolated, but even with only a cursory look, that encryption is pure Alliance…and they can hide some nasty shit in there.”[/b][/colour]

Another dialogue box popped up, showing another string of programs being loaded into Sadaet’s computer. [colour=43BFC7][b]”First, a couple ‘sniffers’ I wrote. Sometimes the like to slip auto-execute attack barriers into the encryption to go on the offensive the moment you start running a decryption. The sniffer sort of passively probes the encryption to try and get a look at it; not the most detailed, but it should give me a rough idea of what I’m up against without prompting any active response.”[/b][/colour] As the sniffers ran, she made a bit of a face, this machine was so [I]slow[/I]…well, not really, but compared to the processor in her head it was; they took a whole [I]50 seconds![/I]
 
[colour=43BFC7][b]”[I]Riiight….[/I] here we go,”[/b][/colour] She said, as streams of code began appearing in a new box of the screen. [colour=43BFC7][b]”Definitely Alliance…a version of the CXD type encryption, older yet still very effective, but not as likely to hide ‘surprises’ fortunately.”[/b][/colour] More programs were loaded in, the first ones starting to actively ‘map’ the encryption architecture, while the follow up one set to work on actually breaking it down.

Reaching over, Val unplugged herself and sat back with a smile. [colour=43BFC7][b]”Now all that’s left is for the program to run its course…assuming there aren’t any ‘surprises’ along the way.”[/b][/colour]