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“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher (1844-1900)
You may be unmatched as a warrior, but nothing will ever change the fact that you have the soul of a scholar.”
Just because you were good at something didn’t mean it was a match with your personality or psyche.
Kira Miller is even more of a genius than her record would suggest,” he said. “Especially when it comes to gene therapy.
And Kira Miller’s file was the only one he kept at home. There were no other records ever located that made any mention of her at all—other than the ones she took, of course.”
Desh knew signs of sociopathy were usually present from a very young age if anyone was looking in the right direction. If Kira Miller could torch her brother in cold blood, she wouldn't likely be squeamish about killing her parents either.
“Working with Jihadists is an interesting choice for a Western woman, even for a sociopath. These groups aren't exactly known for being progressive when it comes to a woman’s place in society.”
Someone as talented as Kira Miller can engineer these to her specifications. Like a Trojan Horse virus that infects your computer. It lies dormant until whatever predetermined time the asshole who invented it has specified. Then it emerges and demolishes your files.”
Humanity seemed to have a singular ability to find destructive uses for any constructive technology.
Humanity never failed to find a way to become its own worst enemy.
The most ordered societies would degenerate into chaos and devastation almost overnight.”
“I’ll give it my best,” he added with a sigh. “That’s all I can do.”
failure, you’re the biggest bargain the government has ever had.”
most men would find her brilliance intimidating.
airtight evidence gathered against her for the murders of Lusetti and her brother, and the Ebola gene therapy plot.
Only someone extremely careful and extremely clever could possibly elude a government-sponsored manhunt for this long.
So how to catch someone smarter than yourself?
You counted on her doing everything exactly right. This was the answer.
assuming she was still in the States, hiding in plain sight.
especially given her need to tap into an ocean of biotechnology literature as her research progressed.
HACKER-CRATIC OATH I swear to use my awesome powers for good, not evil.
hacker-cratic oath quite seriously, and would only work with someone if he had assurances their intentions were honorable.
integrity,” he continued, “but betraying my trust would be a very, very bad idea
“Not unless you're prepared to engage in a little social engineering.”
Man cannot hack using computers alone. The best hackers are also the most proficient at milking information from humans—the system’s weakest links.”
“Human Brain Mapping.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Journal of Applied Gerontology.
Once you've laid out your bone fides, people will tell you just about anything.”
Chances are, this will be Kira Miller.”
Would you anticipate they’d try to track you through your online journal subscriptions like we just did?”
“Because the only way to buy an online subscription is by using a credit card.”
“Okay. Suppose she did steal the subscriptions. Could you track such a theft?”
discount subscribers, shall we say, that they don’t know about.
“Two of the journals were being siphoned to the same e-mail address as of about ten months ago. No other stolen subscriptions among the three journals had the same signature.”
If I were her, I’d trace the ping back to us.”
I also want you to plant a tracer, so if she does invade my computer, it can latch on and follow the breadcrumb trail back to her.”
She got through your firewall and invaded your computer. And she downloaded everything she needs.”
There was a leak in USASOC—wide enough to steer a supertanker through.
If Griffin had not been placing sophisticated tracking software on his computer, Desh would never have known it had been compromised.
He wanted to lead her to his computer and plant false information: now he had the perfect conduit for this, one that was above suspicion.
Westerners were still blissfully unaware that the future of progressive society was anything but assured.
The answer: no life at all. He had refused to even consider it.
He needed to know the full extent of the data to which Kira Miller now had access.
bring a slightly different perspective to the material and would glean fresh insights.
key discovery 4u. visit me asap. don't call. computers, walls, phones: all might have ears.
hyper-alert, just as a woman emerged from behind the door with a gun aimed at his chest.
Instead of bullets, two electrode darts had leapt from her gun and stuck like Velcro to Desh’s pants, discharging their massive electric payload in an instant.
human nature to feel more vulnerable when naked, and he was no exception.
realized it was dangerous to make any assumptions about her actions or motives.
