Hacker's Diary
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I guess they are right. Majority of great minds were never afraid of staying alone for, as much as, it took to accomplish their work and they exposed themselves only when they wanted to share the fruits of their good work.
The potatoes were ready at 15:00. And I mean, ready for consumption. As I said, I like potatoes, especially the way I do them myself.
I ate and took another shower. You sweat a great deal when you cook in a room without an air conditioner in Israel. Afterwards, I went to bed and tried to make myself sleep.
I had to get additional hours of rest if I wanted to be at right mind during the shift.
I've put the deep meditation music on Lana, turned on the vent and made myself ready for a sleep. In about ten minutes or so, I was seeing dreams about mountains of gold and robo-sheep swarming around it.
Psychologists state that they don't know the meaning of human dreams yet, those who research the topic state that they are like a side effect of mind work during the day. A mixture of feelings and thoughts. I think they are somewhat right.
I woke up at 5 PM to my alarm clock and I felt, as if, I partly lost it. Again. The life was a routine till now and everything should have to proceed the same way.
But then again, when you wake up, you feel something. Something that determines the rest of your day. That day was one of those days.
I wanted to carry out the plan in the fastest manner possible, alas I had to wait till the 10th of the month to get the salary and run the offshore bank test. After all, I was betting on a huge sum of money to be transferred electronically to the bank account and that thing couldn't be left wish washy, it should work for sure.
I set up with a back to a wall and watched my breath for a little while. If I had a cat, it would observe me and think to itself "This fellow is really lame at trying to be a cat!". I did not have a cat though.
After that tiny practice of mind and soul pacification.
"Upside down situation" I finally said out loud. Complete disaster. How do I continue living if I fail? If I get caught? I had to reevaluate the odds of failure and success. Maybe, some charity could work not just to help father with rebuilding his home.
Checklist! I should come up with a checklist of things to do with the money. After all, if everything goes well, my code won't be tracked until the 10th of next month and all the credit card transactions would be transferred to me.
We can perform a simple calculation to figure out what sum of money we are talking about here: $400MM/annual divided by 12 turns to be $33.33MM per month. Now, let's say only two-thirds are paid in credit, so it' s around $20MM after a month of running the code non-stop. Pretty good sum we have here.
I came up with an idea of how to make it all connect, all the dots.
I went through the regular routine of preparing to work, supper, shower, dress up wallet, key.
And to the stop.
I decided to ease myself a little bit on all of it until the 10th of the month and proceeded to go to work and play a loyal soldier of the system.
The 10th of June came quicker than I thought it would. And the 11th was my day off and it was Sunday. It was a sunny day when I left for the bank to transfer a great amount of my money to the dollars debit card.
The walk was an ease and it was an unmeasurable fun to have a day off on the day I get the money.
Once at the bank, all I had to do is wait for the line. So, I simply took a number and sat down to open my phone and have a quick browse through the emails I got.
It was delightful to see all the newsletters align for me every Sunday like a set of stars dazzling with their light. Light it was, the light of information.
Bob Lefsetz was my favorite musings newsletter, music and urban philosophy, a lite mix of positive cynicism, I would say. I did not even know the guy but he had loads of stories and opinions to share with us, readers. I liked that.
With that said, my turn in queue came. So, I stood up and approached the lady at the counter.
She was a fine religious lady, that I could tell by her manner of dress, I smiled and said "Shalom" she replied with "Shalom, how may I help you?" "I got my salary" I answered with a little grin on my face and handed her the ID and the Debit card.
"Let me see" she replied, and after about half a minute replied with "What do you want to do?" "To take 3500 shekels and charge this debit card with dollars" ""It's about $1000 dollars" "I know" She went through the entire procedure. She asked me to sign a paper and about after 4 minutes, we were through. I took the printings and went home a happy person with 996.85 USD loaded the debit card. Work does pay off.
Now, I could test the entire money laundering process with the offshore account and bitcoins too, just in case I would want to diversify the bounty.
As every good bounty hunter knows, diversification of funds is a great deal of your own safety.
Once at home, I locked the door and closed the windows and went into the Dark Web. It's fun to play God at times, but as a human, you get tired even of that eventually. There was nothing generally new I found on Dark Web that would fascinate me, but it is an enormous amount of data, so there is no need to wonder.
I took me some time to read the news too. There are always changes in this world that affect each other and lead to certain unexpected results.
It was quite at the country, so I considered to open an account and use it as an offshore zone. Splendid.
At 2:00 PM, I opened the account and made the first transaction over there. I made the first attempt of pulling the money out to the bank account of my dad, as a pledge of support. Success!
Now, I could set everything up for the big act:
1) Recording of the cameras.
2) Prepared flash drive with the Trojan.
3) Update the code of the Trojan with an account of the offshore zone.
4) Keep it cool.
I had to make it clear to myself, that after, I installed the USB, everything will begin in a non-returnable pace. I had to decide to continue working during that month or quit for a better safety. Adrenaline was rushing through my head, so I took an A4 paper and split it into two columns: StayLeave
I have written all the pluses of each. Leave had more. Decided. I had to leave during the next shift, after the installation of the USB.
I went to bed and was already imaging my new life as a lawyer in Canada.
It was good enough to allow myself fall asleep in a quiet manner at 3:30 PM.
The alarm clock woke me up at 1:00 AM. I stood off my bed and smiled, finally the day has come.
I took my time to dress up and drink a good old cup of Lipton tea. Then, I followed the list of things to do and got it done.
The security screens were showing recordings from earlier, from 2:30 PM, to be exact. The only thing I had to do now is act cool and install the USB in such manner that it wouldn't grab too much attention. Once installed, the Trojan would affect the entire network and the money will start to flow.
At 2:00 AM, I was standing there at our usual rendezvous point.
The driver arrived at 2:05 AM.
I've boarded the bus. Hallowed everyone and sat, watching the window, there wasn't much to watch but the passing streets and lonely drivers on their cars, here and there.
Once we arrived at the airport, I was the last person to go off the bus. I swapped the chip and went in a very slow paced manner, what happened is that we arrived 20 minutes ahead of time, what happens rarely. I thought that goddess Fortune smiled at my little ploy.
I went to the moving stares then to the security check and that was the easy part. The little USB even hasn't rung, though I left it in the pocket of my jacket. Unconscious but not a fatal feat.
I proceeded slowly through the corridor then to the dining room to mark my finger, so the hours would count. Then to the cash room. Finally, the cash room and the cash box where it all will get serious. I couldn't test the screen of the security, as I could at
home, so the only thing I could do now, is to be careful while installing the flash drive.
"Number six, please" "Number six you go!"
I took the money and went into the cash box to install the actual box and while all the fuss with the changing of the cashiers went on, the flash drive was on, as well.
It was my big moment that if I'm lucky no one will notice.
I installed the cash into the cash box while closing the cover I slipped my right hand into the pocket and then under the screen located the USB hole and "Clank" it got there. Nobody saw nothing or understood anything. That was my last shift here and no camera had a trace of what I just did.
The code being already running in the background infecting the entire network. I just served the customers with a little trace of an extra happy smile.
The shift continued as usual to plenty of people and no one knew what actually was going on. The plan worked perfectly well.
Close to 7 AM, I got a break. I went straight to the management and informed them that I quit. They were surprised. The lady, Ilanit asked “Why do you quit? You're such a good employee, we could lessen the hours for you if you like or could take a day off." "No, mam, I have to quit because I understood that if I stay here longer I will go nuts, it's always a different shift and no one normal could get used to this." "Oh well, fill out the form, finish the shift and we will send you your last salary to your bank account."
I did just that. Filled out the form, thanked her and went on to finish my last shift.
*Month later*
The Duty-Free Headquarters.
"We got a loss of $30MM this month! Jack! I want to see Jack immediately, I want to know who did it, I want to look him in the eye!"
Canada, Toronto
Like I said before, if good things happen, they happen all at once, you shouldn't wait for avalanche of bad things to happen, you simply could do nothing if you wait just for that. But if you are like me, you don't play with fate, you take it into your own hands.
"Garson! I want one Becker please!"
"Sure sir!"
My slick Gucci suit was screaming success all over the place, After all, Toronto University Law Faculty is not jokes. It's a road were many successful people begun.
My dad got a new home.
Mum was amazed that she won a lottery and shared some money with her and me.
Life is a chocolate when you know how to cook.
As for you my dear reader, remember, people are stupid. Don't be one of them.
The End
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Truly yours,
Adam Smith
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adam Prockstem Smith is an entrepreneur, a blogger, and an international author. At the age of sixteen, he started his first business building one-page internet marketing websites. He speaks fluent Russian, Hebrew, and English.
After finishing high school, he proceeded with self-education and exploration of the nature of the human mind. Through extensive research, and many trials and errors, Adam has become experienced with Zen. His particular style of choice is the Kwan Um School of Zen, of which he is a moderate practitioner. He is always ready to help others and learn new things.
Adam is the founder of DragonPoe.com and RussianPoe.com.
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