Internet Relay Chat capture:
AlbertInTheShade: Two days ago, an individual, identity undisclosed, is charged with hacking the computers of twenty-one merger lawyers from three US firms. They are saying he hacked the emails, bought shares in the companies, then sold after the merger announcements. All while squatting in a wee flat in Northern Ireland.
LM224: Insider trading from the outside.
AlbertInTheShade: Right. But the thing is, one of the twenty-one is the firm through which Cathexis, under their adorable little research outfit STX, brokered a deal with a consortium of universities: STX gives the schools funding for research projects and keeps the intellectual property. One of these universities has been developing virtual worlds for military training and for PTSD treatment. Another drones. Another education software and diagnostic programs. You’re naive if you don’t see this hacked firm is also the firm that brokered some quiet deals for a company that does data protection for military hardware.
LM224: Naive because.
AlbertInTheShade: Because altogether, you have a research group that will be a neat little loop. Kid is brown or black and taking Risperdal. Then they track him to combat. But the one who likes computers? They find a nice little seat for him where he’s not just playing video games. He’s playing real war, drones. Later, they’ll strap all of them up for Simulated Environment Therapy. On Cathexis, the ads will be for anxiety meds, sleeping pills. Whole lives can be decided by a few folks who are too smart for their own good. And get this: the hacker? It’s RabbidUnicorn.
LM224: You said there was never a RabbidUnicorn.
AlbertInTheShade: This guy with the charges, they are saying his alias is RapeUnicorn. It’s the same fucking guy, Michaels.
LM224: You said you thought RabbidUnicorn was a long con coming somewhere out of a federal agency.
AlbertInTheShade: That’s exactly what I’m saying, Michaels.
LM224: Say you’re right—and I’m not, by the way—but just say you are. This quote-unquote guy who hacked the merger lawyers is RabbidUnicorn. Who is really spooks. And they are hacking a law firm retained by Cathexis because?
AlbertInTheShade: They do not know who else Cathexis is working for. Other countries, splinter groups. They do not know if weapons are being developed for China, Russia, ISIS.
LM224: Or it really is some Irish kid.
AlbertInTheShade: They claim he hacked Northern Irish police computers as well. Could be RabbidUnicorn is a real, live hacker. Doesn’t mean this guy’s not also a scapegoat on the merger case. A criminal of not this crime.
LM224: What would be in it for the feds to go after this guy?
AlbertInTheShade: Maybe they’ve got a wee reason to take interest in the Irish police force, or their allies in Westminster do. Maybe they’re interested in taking him as their own.
LM224: That’s a lot of different hypotheses.
AlbertInTheShade: Possibilities, Michaels. Science is generating possibilities, then eliminating them.
LM224: And what do you want me to do?
AlbertInTheShade: Stop talking to Barry Cain about me. He’s one of them.