Slicing and Dicing

[The Red of Sinner]

Smoke rose from the tip of the cigarette as Ando watched the man struggle to get lose from his bindings Ando had placed on him. The Atrisian took a hit from the cancer stick, inhaling the menthol taste as it not only cooled his mouth, but warmed his throat. Loosing his tie, Ando took a step towards the strapped down man with a bald head, and sweat pilling up on his shiny dome that bounced light off the single fan in the room. Tape covered his mouth. keeping his words muffled, and blurred. Black gloves covered Ando's hands as he picked up the vibroknife from the small table placed next to the man.

"I have tried to be...civil with you. A broken nose, and three missing fingers are not that hard to get over Mr. Croldman. All I want is access to your bank accounts within the Banking Clans, so..."

Ando jumped on top of the man's lap, getting close to his face. The smell of sweat, and urine widened the pupils in his eyes. The blubbery old man flinched at Ando's movements. He placed a hand over his bald cranium, petting him gently.

"Well...I guess...we're going a different way with this I guess..."

Without hesitation, the knife was shoved in the man's neck blasting Ando with blood who removed himself from Mr. Croldman's lap and turned to look at the lone computer in the dark with just it's screen on. He took another hit from the cigarette, blowing the smoke out of his nose. With a sigh, he moved over to the computer, and began typing.

//Beginning Encryption//
...
......
loading....
Hacked.....

You may begin.

Evening Miss Thane, I understand this is intruding into your private life, but I am in need of some help.

Camera Activing...

You see this bloat here, bleeding all over my floor? He has a account in the Banking Clans with a very large sum of credits, I require it please. Of course..I am willing to give you a cut.

The camera showed Ando typing away as he then turned to let the dead man be presented to the slicer. Ando left out a short and jolly chuckle.

[member="Natalya Thane"]

 

[NightSister]

Still dressed in her everyday black bodysuit, Natalya came back to her flat on Coruscant after a one-time job testing security. It had been fun and the rewards plentiful, but it hadn't been enough to put her mind to the test and the job had bored her.

Right on cue, an encryption had made its way to her datapad asking her to hack a bank account. Likely it would be illegal, but her slices never left a trace and the intellectual challenge combined with the credits made the offer too much to resist. Without wasting a moment she saved the image of the man's face and pasted it into a search bar. Once a result came up linking to the Banking Clans she set a firewall around her datapad and began to slice through the system. After slicing through a number of Imperial systems in a matter of days, overwriting a bank account would be a walk in the park. Creeping through the network, invisible as a ghost, she had control of the bank account within around eight hours. Wow, he wasn't kidding about the guy being rich...

Focusing, Natalya overwrote the bank account with Mr Blackstar as the new administrator.

//Beginning encryption//

You have control of the bank account now. I'll be expecting those credits!

//End of encryption//

[member="Ando Blackstar"]

 

[The Red of Sinner]

[member="Natalya Thane"]

Ando craned his neck to look behind him to where the dead man sat, slumped over, a pool of blood under him. "I was going to let you live...but...I guess I couldnt have done that huh? Now, let's see what you were hiding from me." Skimming through the numbers being crunched on his end, the money was good, and in large amounts. He took another drag of his cigarette, blowing smoke from the sides of his lips. There was a certain number he was looking for to be transferred to his own account. Where was it? After a few minutes of skimming through it, he found the numbers. But it was still under tight lockdown requiring many passwords to get in.

///Encrypted Reply///

Miss Thane, as you can see, all fund have been transferred over to you, nearly all the credits this man has is now yours. I only kept 10%. But this number here, it's still locked, I require what is in it...
...
...
Please?
I'll take you on a lovely date on the beach shores of Naboo if you will.

////Encryption Ending///
[member="Natalya Thane"]

 

[NightSister]

90% and a date in Naboo? That wasn't an offer Natalya would turn down in a hurry. Her fingers were a blur as they danced across her keyboard, and the outside world turned to nothing as she crept around the digital world. She was surprised that he would need more clearance than administration to get into the number, but once she had found a loophole and snuck inside she saw why. There was enough in there to make a planet - no, a whole system could live in luxury with this amount of credits. Natalya couldn't even begin to imagine what purpose the money was being used for instead. Likely something ridiculous that was only justified by the money itself. With that in mind, Natalya didn't feel particularly guilty hunting down the passwords and it took less than three hours before she was sending them to Mr Blackstar in an encryption.

//Beginning encryption...//

Password 1: h4f8agef7ye
Password 2: g73gidfy03o
Password 3: yg3204ry7fg
Naboo, here we come!

//Encryption ending...//

[member="Ando Blackstar"]