Thursday, July 30, 2015

Cracking The Nut: Part 3

This is Part 5 of my "The Nut" series. This is the last piece of mine to be written exclusively for Glipho.

After all the guards ran away, I climbed down off the server rack and started walking through a dark hallway.
In the hallway, I find a guard watching a door. A quick zap with my taser knocks him out... and his radio starts beeping.

Dispatch: "Everything OK down there?"

Me: "I think the microwave set off the radio." (talking away from the radio) "Vlad... Your popcorn is freaking out dispatch." (talking into the radio) "We're fine down here dispatch, don't send backup."

Dispatch: "Yeah, but what's going on down there? All these alarms going off and we have problems with two server rooms."

Me: "I think it's sun spots... that's my only accounting."

Dispatch: "Yep, just a minute."
(After a minute)
"Sorry about grilling you like that, you know protocol... just don't let it happen again."

After that interesting conversation, I find that the guard I tased has a keycard. No telling what this opens, but I'd better take it.

I open the door he was guarding to find a wall of circuit breakers. This must be the main power room.

I've already wreaked some havoc on the base by sabotaging two sever rooms... but a power outage will cause considerable meltdown. I remind myself to come back here before I leave to throw the whole place into chaos.

I move past the power room to find the head dispatch office. The person manning the office seems to be gone.

I decide to disable the camera views so I won't have to worry about bumping into cameras anymore. I'm just about to leave when the person manning the dispatch station comes back and draws his firearm on me.

Dispatch: "What are you doing here?"

Me: "Whoa, whoa! Relax... I'm here because head office wanted me to do a pen-test on your system."

Dispatch: "I would have been notified."

Me: "You didn't get the memo last week? Well someone messed up. Either way, you passed the test."

Dispatch: "Alright, that's great. Now get out of dispatch command."

Me: "OK. Also the cameras are down for maintenance. Some idiot tripped the breaker on them and now everything is just showing a loop."

After leaving dispatch, I find a room containing nothing but a lot of cubicles and phones... It's anyone's guess what is actually done here.

I find a door that has a keycard lock on it, and try to open it with my keycard.
The door opens and I walk inside.

This room has all the markings of a panic room. This might be used for executives in case something goes wrong.

I then move to a room containing hard drives, and an industrial shredder. They must destroy electronics in here to make things harder for court cases or something. Might be good to come back here.

I walk into a room that appears to be a guard station... But all the guards are asleep. One of them is holding a flash drive, which I slip out of his hand.

I check the contents of the flash drive to find names of high ranking government officials. It looks like these guys are on the malware purveyor payroll.

This is a major find and is worth the operation just for this. Mr.Bill will be pleased.

After this flash drive, I have run out of space in my burlap sack.
I find a phone in a nearby room and call my escape ride.

The ride will take a few hours to get here, so I have time to go back and do a few things.
My first stop is the server room with the propane tank that I blew up.

Boss: "Whose idea was it to put a propane tank in a server room. I want that person fired for having such a stupid idea."

Guard 1: "Um... sir... that was your idea."

Boss: "...On second thought, it was a great idea."

Now I move to the room that had all the flash drives and find that someone has taken the flash drives and put hard drives in their place.
After looking at the contents of the hard drives, I find them exactly the same as the flash drives from before.

I decide to throw a grenade at the pile of hard drives. Sure, the noise would likely alert someone, but at this point it almost does not matter. Besides, odds are that a lot of people think that there is someone here by now.

I run to a safe distance and watch the explosion.
The resulting fire will burn any hard drives left.

I then make my way to the server room whose A/C system I sabotaged.

Boss: "What's the report? What caused this?"

Guard: "Um... a paperclip, sir."

Boss: "A paperclip... Who would... You know what? All this stuff going wrong in one day can only mean one thing."

Guard: "What's that, boss?"

 Boss: "There's an unfriendly here. Put out a call to the entire base, tell them to be on the lookout for anyone suspicious... We have an intruder in our main base."

Guard: "Really... How did he get in... In through the window?"
The way he said "in through the" sounded like intruder.

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