So, you know what the problem with just flying around is? Even the radiation is enough to give you a nice and cool repair bill, and you'll run out of cash much sooner than you'd thought! Well, I wasn't going back to mining, that was for sure. Instead, I decided to see what I can do other than that. I was sitting at the FP2 bar, reading news and checking the net, and I noticed some ad about hiring network security programmers. Well, I knew how to handle computers and stuff like that, so I thought 'Why not?' Was definitely worth the try. The pay wasn't -that- good, but definitely good enough to keep me going for some time, and the good part about it, was that we could use the remote consoles to keep an eye on things. So I could fly around and also do my work and get paid at the same time!
The first few months were just the same boring crap, me and a team of 5 other programmers taking care of all the stuff and getting paid, and it was much easier than I had thought, but then, I was contacted by one of the oldest private banks in Liberty, who - for some reason - were interested in my work, and wanted me to write them a whole new encryption and security system. Seems they were getting attacked by some unknown hacker for the past couple days, and they wanted to act faster before the dude manages to breach their security. The one hitting their servers was definitely an interesting one. One of the sneakiest hackers I've ever seen in my life - Well, he turned out to be a Lane Hacker in the end, and I wasn't really surprised -. I was working on a new security system and also trying to track down this hacker, so this was when I decided to set a trap for him. When the new security system was ready, I installed a fake version on the main computer instead of the final version. What this 'mousetrap' version did, was to simply redirect the data stream to my own computer, and start uploading a bunch of useless junk and random crap. With a bit of luck, this could make the hacker think he's finally breached the security, and could buy me some time to track him down and see who and where he is. The result wasn't as good as I was hoping though, it turned out to be the public comm access on Freeport 4, and there was no way to track who was the exact person using it. So, I just decided to call it a draw and installed the main system on the bank's database.
I still decided to drop by FP4 anyway to see if I can find out anything about this hacker, but seems I wasn't the only one who was looking for the other. I spent a few hours at FP4, asking around to see if anyone had seen anything unusual, but no one really had a satisfying answer for me. Just when I decided it's pointless and undocked from Freeport, I got contacted by this Sabre right next to me, "Lookin' for me so hard?". For some reason, the Lane Hacker transponder didn't surprise me, and I knew who was I talking to. This person with "Medium Blue" callsign, was definitely the one behind the attacks on the bank. Interesting part was, neither of us was there to shoot the other one, because we both wanted to talk, and that we did. We took a spin around the place and had a word about our works. He believed he was not a pirate, as he never hit on transports and hacked random net accounts instead, taking enough credits to last him a few months. Thinkin' about it, it was actually a good way to make money! Seems I was the one ruining his business though. But he had a better plan. He was offering me a job, and accepting that offer was how I got into all this fun mess I'm in! Seeing the 'Unlawful' side of things was fun, and being 'colleagues' with a Lane Hacker definitely helped.
