Part 117 (1/2)
Scott was truly impressed This is where taxpayer's money went
Vinnie called Tyrone and by the tiital es were ready
Scott followed Tyrone down one corridor, then another, through a common area, and down a couple more hallways They entered Room 322B The innocuous appearance of the door did not prepare Scott for what he saw; a huge coth Blue and tan and beige and a few black metal cabi- nets that housed hundreds of disparate yet co-existing coreat arrays of switches, row upon row of video and graphic displays as far as the eye could see Thousands of white two by two foot square panel floors hid miles of wires and cables that interconnected the round control center There appeared to be a nue computer consoles were centered amidst racks of tape or disk drives which served as the only separation be- torkers
”This is Big Floyd,” Tyrone said proudly ”Or at least one part of hi Floyd is a huge national coe Network This is the most powerful computer facility outside of the NSA”
Quiet conversations punctuated the hu and the printers pushi+ng reams of paper Thewith purpose The roo too loud would surely be considered blaspheh banks and banks of equipment, more computer equipment than Scott had ever seen in one location
In fact the Federal Square coy The NSA coht have more oomph!, but the FBI computers have more purpose
Tyrone stopped at one control console and asked if they could do afor Mr Duncan ”RHIP,”
Tyrone said Scott recognized the acronyave the computer operator the pictures and asked him to explain the process to Scott
”I take these pictures and put thees are stored here,” he said pointing at a a rack of equipht, physique and so on” He copied the infor- mation into the computer
”Noe ask the computer to find possible matches”
”You mean the computer has photos of everyone in there?” Scott asked incredulously
”No, Scott Just the bad guys, and people with security clear- ances, and public officials? Your Aunt Tillie is safe fro eyes” The reason for Ty's sarcas in an official capacity on this part of the investigation
”How many do you have? Pictures that is?” Scott asked more diplo- matically
”That's classified,” Tyrone said quickly
”The hackers say you have files on over a hundred lared at him, as if to say, shut the fuck up Scott took the non-verbal hint and they watched in silence as the co for similar photo files in its massive memory Within a couple of minutes the computer said that there were 4 possible matches At the end of the 10 minute search, it was up to 16 candidates
”We'll do a visual instead of a second search,” said the man behind the keyboard ”We'll start with the 90 e monitor flashed with a picture of a man, that while not unlike the Spook in features, was definitely not hiraph
”No, not him,” Scott said without pause The computer operator hit a couple of keys, a second picture flashed on the monitor and Scott's face lit up ”That's him! That's the Spook!”
Tyrone had wondered if they would find any est in the world, it was unlikely that there was a coe hackers ”Are you sure?” Tyrone emphasized the word, 'sure'
”Positive, yes That's him”
”Let's have a quick look at the others before we do a full re- trieve,” said the coreed and fourteen other pictures of men with similar facial characteristics to the Spook appeared on the screen, all receiving a quick 'no' froain Scott said, ”that's hi the computer, ”do a retrieve on OBR-III” Mike nodded and stretched over to a large printer on the side of the console He pushed a key and in a few seconds, the printer spewed out page after page of inforned to fight terrorisularly spoke to siland, France and Germany With only small bits of data it can extrapo- late potential terrorist targets, and who is the likely person behind the attacks OBR-III is an expert system that learns continuously, as the human mind does Within seconds it can provide information on anyone within its e from the printer before it was finished and read to hirabbed his attention His eyes widened ”Boy, when you pick 'em, you pick 'em” Tyrone whistled
”What, what?” Scott strained to see the printout, but Tyrone held it away
”It's no wonder he calls himself Spook,” Tyrone said to no one in particular ”He's ex-NSA” He ripped off the final page of the printout and called Scott to follow hi the computer operators for their assistance