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Brand X.
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Okay! Okay.
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Good Morning
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I'm Agent Peterson, And this is Agent
Wallace
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Yeah, He's new but uh, he's learning, so
cut him a little slack for now.
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Tell me your name!
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... your real name, for the record.
(clears throat)
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Charles Drake.
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What ... what do you want from me?
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What do we want? What do we want !?
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You the motherfucker who likes to steal
shit from the government! Huh? Huh !?
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Not yet. Be Patient
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See what I mean?
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What do you do for a living, Charles?
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I teach math, at Berkley. (solemnly)
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Nice cover, asshole.
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ALGORITHM: noun. a set of rules to be
followed in problem-solving
operations, especially by a
computer.
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A month ago I was a god.
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Most people have no idea what a hacker
can do.
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I make the world you live in...
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...and I can re-shape that world if I feel
like it.
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When I look around, I don't see borders,
walls, or locks.
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I see puzzles...
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...games that entertain me while I do
bigger things.
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Things like breaking into the phone
company to re-write the code on their
servers...
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...and give myself free unlimited service.
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Swapping out my pre-burned SIM cards
everyday at 6pm is a small price to pay.
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I don't care about privacy...
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or social status, or accumulating stuff.
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I don't care about the law, or who makes
it.
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I live by one rule: information should be
free.
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And everything can be simplified, encoded
and understood as information.
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We call this the information age for a
reason.
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Companies and governments don't get it,
so they are powerless against me.
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You think there are rules?
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You treat computers like you do everything
else...
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...like it's an immutable fact of life and
because of that...
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...your worldview is antiquated.
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Get ready for a serious paradigm shift.
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The geeks have inherited the earth, the
rest of you just don't know it yet.
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For you consideration, exhibit A.
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I just hacked every computer within 20
feet of me.
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I own them now.
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Thanks for coming.
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I think, my wife, is cheating on me.
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So ditch her.
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California's a "no fault" state. She gets
half regardless.
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I want proof.
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What for? Just call it "irreconcilable
differences" and bail.
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I want proof for myself.
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I need to know.
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What kind of proof?
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You want video of her playing another
guy's skin-flute?
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'cause that's not what I do.
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No, no, no, no, no. Look around.
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If you find anything you send it to me.
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Either way you still get paid.
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That's the deal. You know my fee.
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Why would I hack all these computers...
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...including the laptop of a man who just
gave me five grand?
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I don't care what he does for a living.
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And if your wife finds out?
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She won't.
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I understand the need for discretion,
Mr.?
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It's LU$er
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I collect computers. Most of them don't
lead anywhere interesting
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so I just add the to my botnet,
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a massive set of computers I use to do
whatever I feel like doing at the time
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mostly, to cover any trace of the big
hacks that I do that might lead back to me
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.
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I can write the code I need to break into
Dempsey's network.
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But he lives in a very expensive
neighborhood.
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I can't just sit on his curb, outside his
house, brute-forcing my way in.
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I need another Can-of-Worm.
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How soon do you need it?
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Two days?
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Are you coming?
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Hackers come in two basic modes: coders
and makers.
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Bitchan is a maker.
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She has a degree in electrical engineering
.
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In other words, she's a lightning god,
controlling and manipulating electricity
to do her will.
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As a side job, she modifies gaming
consoles...
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...so they'll played copied discs or games
from anywhere in the world.
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It's not to break the law.
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That isn't even a factor.
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She does it for the same reason I do.
It's about information.
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And region encoding is just another puzzle
blocking the way.
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So, is this the gig Decimate hooked you
up with?
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Yeah. It's residential. He lives in St.
Francis Wood.
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So do the TV, the Wi-Fi, and anything else
you can think of.
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What about the firewall?
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That too. They just upgraded to smart-
meters.
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If the worm doesn't get through in five
hours
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just reset the power to the house...
force a reboot.
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And when the can works?
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How big?
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It'll fit.
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Can I spend the night?
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When did you start asking?
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I'm going to be here until morning.
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We're not ADHD.
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We just don't care that wind-speeds on
Saturn can get up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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I remember it because I collect
information.
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But it's worthless to me until I decide to
build a probe to land on Saturn,
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which doesn't even have a surface to land
on anyway.
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