[network] @standardissue; It's a Code, Cruel World [open] [Night 217]

[deus_ex_phs]

Found something neat.

[There's light in the room that Kunsel's in, like the light from a computer screen. That's definitely not a tablet Kunsel's focusing his camera on, though. The room itself appears to be part of a small office. Hard to see the cubicles in the dark, but that hardly matters. That's not what Kunsel wants people to see.

No, it's the screen of a large machine that's been bolted to the ground. A screen that's still clearly working. It says "Please enter password" in plain text.]

Don't suppose anyone's found any random passwords lying around?

[He's posting this as much for his own sake as for information, since his discovery happens to coincide with an urge to share his fears that he's trying to resist right now.]

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[deus_ex_phs]

You'd think people would know better than that.

Maybe. Hopefully. There's a place where I can plug my tablet in here and...

[Best not actually talk about hacking on the open network.]

Well. We'll see what turns up. If you're interested, I'll let you know how it goes.

[thewarningafter]

[Thus why he didn't say hack. He'll leave it at that, too.]

You'd think. And yeah, let me know what you figure out.

[deus_ex_phs]

Alright.

[He leaves it at that for now, focusing on the task at hand. It'll be a good while before Kunsel gets back to him.]

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It's a key card machine. It makes key cards from whatever images you supply it with, though apparently with some restrictions for certain copyright protected cards.

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[thewarningafter]

Huh. That could be useful.

[After just a tick.]

You try using an image of the card those people found down at the gate the other day?

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[deus_ex_phs]

Tried it with two of them. Copied one just fine - the one we think is for the power plant - but the other one gave me a copyright protection error.

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[thewarningafter]

Be interesting to see if the new card actually works. Someone else had a key card for you to copy?

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[deus_ex_phs]

We'll let people know if it works.

Brian has Robert Miller's keycard. That's the one we couldn't make a copy of.

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[thewarningafter]

The asshole underground with the admin? Where'd he get that?

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[deus_ex_phs]

One and the same, and no idea. I assume it was found lying around, same as the other keycards we've found. I didn't ask him.

You think it's important?

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[thewarningafter]

Maybe. I thought all the things we were finding up here belonged to the dead.

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[deus_ex_phs]

It's probably more that all the former owners happen to be dead, with the exception of Miller. We're finding their things because they lived here, not because they're dead.

But I'll ask.

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[thewarningafter]

Maybe Miller left it behind during some kind of evacuation procedure.

Thanks. I'll be interested to know if the other copy works on the power plant. I'm not far from there myself, so I'll get back in contact with you if I come across anything that seems useful.

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[deus_ex_phs]

Possibly.

Brian doesn't know where it was picked up. He said Tim found it, but Tim's died since then and hasn't revived yet.

We'll be in touch, then.

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[thewarningafter]

Right. Later, then.