»: Chloe/Lovelace, Mr. Ling CC: Revenant

[Mr.Ling]

...hack.initiated...connecting.to.Spyglass.Network...decryption.in.progress...
...Deceiver.Mr.Ling.recognized...encoding.transmission...
...uploading.data...

Adonis,

Those did help. It took a bit, but I've got a lead finally. The Argonaut has a few valid keys I could reconstruct. The problem right now is doing it is about 7 years of brute forcing, or knowing an agent specific data deconstruction hash. The bad news is that 7 years is optimistic. The good news is that data deconstruction hashes aren't exactly hard to come by. Any ship that carries sensitive data will output one when it scrambles information to keep it falling into enemy hands. Snagging those and running scrambled data through an inverted version was one of the many tricks I was taught to bypass the Alaska Gate security. The best news is that one of the codes pulled an actual set of ships on file for a data hash: LSF-Whitehawk, [LSF-J.Burnsie, and John.Pickford. Shoot one of them down and record their ship's output, and I have an unrestricted key into the Argonaut's systems. Normally I'd ask Wolfe or one of the Assassins to go after this, but I haven't heard from them in a bit, and I don't want to be the guy looking for people who don't want to be found.

There might be some other hashes that work, I suggest keeping an eye out for them, too. And the deal with the Niyodo itself has been even slower. I want to try tackling it from the other end, but that'd require cracking open the Argonaut. The other option is literally powering the thing up and spamming thousands of probes through its drive to see where they end up, and that seems like a horribly long and horribly expensive process.

...encryption.in.progress...disconnecting.from.network...hack.terminated...