Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Phase 2 - Hacked

As I began to activate my cloaking program, I noticed something special about that link I had book marked. It didn't look like a government web site. Not that the text wasn't correct, but most of the time these web sites were updated constantly to new pages so that no one could access their files for more than a few minutes. It occurred to me that this web site was most likely a hoax. I should have stopped right then and there. I should have shut down and got some sleep. But that wasn't any fun. I had to find out what this web site was all about and what was at the other end of this web address. Using my right hand to steer the mouse and my left to sip my second can of Mountian Dew, I initiated the hacking program.
I watched the numbers scrolling across my screen without much interest. This was turning out to be a normal network breech. Then it happened. It was for only a second, but I saw it. A flaw in my code. Quick as lighting I cracked open another can and scrolled up, searching for that tiny mis-coded zone in those mass of numbers. And I saw it again. It hit me like a brick wall that this wasn't just any code error on my end. My program hadn't had an error in two years. It was almost as if...
There was a brilliant flash as my computer screen began to scroll down without my control. As if to mock me I saw lines after lines of errors and bugs that I had never placed there before. There was nothing I could do to stop it. There was only one explanation and I didn't like it... I was being hacked.