Oracle gets a response. She smiles and shoves her glasses up typing frantically on her keyboard then prompts her computer to follow her instructions not be key-logging but by her voice prompts. She set this up to deter the first test. It is a Black-bag cryptanalysis.
In cryptography, black-bag cryptanalysis is a euphemism for the acquisition of cryptographic secrets via burglary, or the covert installation of keystroke logging. Right now she was sure she was being watched, surrounded, interrogated. Her walls are up as their trojan horse software/hardware targets her computer and ancillary devices. She has to move fast. She had prepared for their search to monitor the electromagnetic emissions of computer displays or keyboards from a distance of 20 metres (perhaps more), and thereby decode what has been typed. This could be done by surveillance technicians, or via some form of a nasty bug concealed nearby.
Oracle stops when another message appears. Well done. Who are you? What do you want?
She speaks "I have a game. One that requires the best. It involves multiple parts or else I would simply do it on my own. If you don't think you can handle it. I understand."
She waits.
Meet me at link- Avalon-game/chat/hiddenpath~0~ ||24107\\\live.
This is where it's sink or swim. Oracle touches the link in the hopes it is not a trap.
She settles in as the members name appear on her screen. Her name appears as RedSonjaofHyrkania
Greetings and Welcom to Avalon. The WHiZard types.
"Greetings to you. I come in peace and hope in good faith. No need to send Cain and Able."
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
The Whizard types We are above rubbernosing in our private chat RED_SONJAOFHyrkania.
Oracle recalls when that term first surfaced into the civilain world in the case of United States v. Scarfo in which FBI agents using a "sneak and peek" search warrant placed a keystroke logger on an alleged criminal gang leader.
He types her first question. WHo is our father?
Oracle chuckles and types frantically Alan Turing the great British mathematician, logician and cryptanalyst. She typed his Turing machine and the Enigma machine.
Correct. The whizard types
Next question is What is the Diffie Hellman key exchange scheme?
Oracle types is when each party generates a public/private key pair and distributes the public key. After obtaining an authentic copy of each other's public keys, subject A and subject B can compute a shared secret offline. The shared secret can be used as the key for a symmetric cipher. It transforms a written message into a form that can be read only by the intended recipient. This cryptographic approach involves the use of asymmetric key algorithms ."
Correct" The WHizard types then "the use of these keys also allows protection of the authenticity of a message by creating a digital signature of a message using the private key, which can be verified using the public key. I am giving you the key to enter the gates to the Emerald City. You may now enter RED_SONJA.
Oracle wait for her key. Only the holder of the paired private key can decrypt. Security depends on the secrecy of that private key.
She enters and reads the (1)Cyber punk facebook manifesto. It is the belief in Libertarian Transhumansim. He eyes scan her lengthy Prelude which reads:
Political Cyberpunk theory is that people should be able to communicate with each other affordably rather than having to phreak the phone system in order to do it. They believe that access to the "Matrix" (e.g., the WORLDWIDEWEB) should be available to everybody rather than forcing people to "hack" in order to get on it. Some, like the "cypherpunks," are trying to educate people about using public-key cryptography so that they can protect the privacy of their messages from corporate and governmental prying eyes. Others try and write free software and source code (like the Free Software Foundation) or "Freenets" so people can gain access to computer resources over the nets."
A Cyberpunk Manifesto:
Society
1/ The Society which surrounds us is clogged with conventionalism, pulling everything and everybody to itself, while it sinks slowly in the quicksands of time.
2/ However doggedly some refuse to believe it; it is obvious that we live in a sick society. The so called reforms which our governments so adeptly use to boast are nothing else but a little step forward, when a whole jump can be done.
3/ People fear the new and unknown. They prefer the old, the known and checked truths. They are afraid of what the new can bring to them. They are afraid that they can lose what they have.
4/ Their fear is so strong that it has proclaimed the revolutionaries -a foe, and the free idea - its weapon.
5/ People must leave this fear behind and go ahead. What's the sense to stick to the little you have now when you can have more tomorrow. Everything they must do is stretch their hands and feel for the new; give freedom to thoughts, ideas, to words:
6/ For centuries each generation has been brought up is a same pattern. Ideals are what everybody follows. Individuality is forgotten. People think in a same way, following the clich drilled in them in childhood, the clich -education for all children: And, when someone dares defy authority, he is punished and given as a bad example. "Here is what happens to you when you express your own opinion and deny your teacher's one".
7/ Our society is sick and needs to be healed. The cure is a change in the system...
The System
1/ The System. Centuries-old, existing on principles that hang no more today. A System that has not changed much since the day of its birth.
2/ The System is wrong.
3/ The System must impose its truth upon us so that it can rule. The government needs us follow it blindly. For this reason we live in an informational eclipse. When people acquire information other that that from the government, they cannot distinguish the right from the wrong. So the lie becomes a truth - a truth, fundamental to everything else. Thus the leaders control with lies and the ordinary people have no notion of what is true and follow the government blindly, trusting it.
4/ We fight for freedom of information. We fight for freedom of speech and press. For the freedom to express our thoughts freely, without being persecuted by the system.
5/ Even in the most-developed and 'democratic' countries, the system imposes misinformation. Even in the countries that pretend to be the cradle of free speech. Misinformation is one of the system's main weapons. A weapon, they use very well.
6/ It is the Net that helps us spread the information freely. The Net, with no boundaries and information limit 7/ Ours is yours, yours is ours.
8/ Everyone can share information, no restrictions.
9/ Encrypting of information is our weapon. Thus the words of revolution can spread uninterrupted, and the government can only guess.
10/ The Net is our realm, in the Net we are Kings.
11/ Laws. The world is changing, but the laws remain the same. The System is not changing, only a few details get redressed for the new time, but everything in the concept remains the same.
12/ We need new laws. Laws, fitting the times we live in, with the world that surrounds us. Not laws build on the basis of the past. Laws, build for today, laws, that will fit tomorrow.
13/ The laws that only refrain us. Laws that badly need revision.
The vision
1/ Some people do not care much about what happens globally. They care about what happens around them, in their micro-universe.
2/ These people can only see a dark future, for they can only see the life they live now.
3/ Others show some concern about the global affairs. They are interested in everything, in the future in perspective, in what is going to happen globally.
4/ They have a more optimistic view. To them the future is cleaner and more beautiful, for they can see into it and they see a more mature man, a wiser world.
5/ We are in the middle. We are interested in what happens now, but also in what happens tomorrow.
6/ We look in the net, and the net is growing wide and wider.
7/ Soon everything in this world will be swallowed by the net: from the military systems to the PC at home.
8/ But the net is a house of anarchy.
9/ It cannot be controlled and in this is its power.
10/ Every man will be dependent on the net.
11/ The whole information will be there, locked in the abysses of zeros and ones.
12/ Who controls the net, controls the information.
13/ We will live in a mixture of past and present.
14/ The bad comes from the man, and the good comes from technology.
15/ The net will control the little man, and we will control the net.
16/ For if you do not control, you will be controlled.
17/ The Information is POWER!
Where are we?
1/ Where are we?
2/ We all live in a sick world, where hatred is a weapon, and freedom - a dream.
3/ The world grows so slowly. It is hard for a Cyberpunk to live in an underdeveloped world, looking the people around him, seeing how wrongly they develop.
4/ We go ahead, they pull us back again. Society suppresses us. Yes, it suppresses the freedom of thought. With its cruel education programs in schools and universities. They instill in the children their view of things, and every attempt to express a different opinion is denied and punished.
5/ Our kids grow educated in this old and still unchanged system. A system that tolerates no freedom of thought and demands a strict obedience to the rules...
6/ In what a worlds, how different from this, could we live now, if people were making jumps and not creeps.
7/ It is so hard to live in this world, Cyberpunk.
8/ It is as if time has stopped.
9/ We live on the right spot, but not in the right time.
10/ Everything is so ordinary, people are all the same, their deeds too. As if society feels an urgent need to live back in time.
11/ Some, trying to find their own world, the world of a Cyberpunk, and finding it, build their own world. Build in their thoughts, it changes reality, lays over it and thus they live in a virtual world. The thought-up, build upon reality:
12/ Others simply get accustomed to the world as it is. They continue to live in it, although they dislike it. They have no other choice but the bare hope that the world will go out of its hollow and will go ahead.
13/ What we are trying to do is change the situation. We are trying to adjust the present world to our needs and views. To use maximally what is fit and to ignore the trash. Where we can't, we just live in this world, like Cyberpunks, no matter how hard, when society fights us we fight back.
14/ We build our worlds in Cyberspace.
15/ Among the zeros and ones, among the bits of information.
16/ We build our community. The community of Cyberpunks.
General Political Views: Network Anarchism (net to be uncontrolled and untouched from governmental corruption). The notion of Libertarian Transhumansim is also a general consideration.
"Many of the cyberpunk culture are hackers, crackers, and phreakers. Some do not engage in those activities but believe in spreading information about them because their manifesto is that "information wants to be free." Political Cyberpunk theory is that people should be able to communicate with each other...
Do you wish to join us?
Oracle signs and agrees..
A huge animated screen lights up filled with millions of faces all saying in their language Welcome. The screen then goes black and a small spiral appears in the center growing larger until it expands to the edges of the page.
A image of a wizard now appears and his white bearded mouth opens and a enter sign appears. She clicks it. It now commands for her to type in her screen name. She enters it and a dozen flashes of encrypted messages stream across the board. It ends with a flashing link. Follow the link now appears.
Now you have earned my attention. What is it you seek Red Sonja?
Oracle tells the group of Lex Corp. The Whizard responds. There are few secrets in our cyber world. This is one that deeply effects us. We chose to live in a balance. We chose to live freely. It is in this idea that I often sit on the fence while others debate. I do agree that one should safeguard certain things for privacy. To acheive this in our generation you must know how the game's are played. There are ways and in those there are means that are defined easily in numbers. I look after my kingdom and all who dwell here. It is my duty to protect and defend them so to your cause we shall rise.
Oracle responds. *Bows her head * Thank you.
The whizard types back. Now we must deliberate our strategy. Send me what you know and my Knights shall fill in the rest.
Oracle types in *bows respectfully and hands him a scroll.* she then attaches to it a link to her document files on all she could find on Lex Corp and S.T.A.R. Labs.
(1) A Cyberpunk Manifesto Christian A. Kirtchev February 14, 1997