"Milgrim sat beside Brown on one of the two benches in a very small park, under the bare branches of a row of young maples."
"Hollis thought that he looked a little like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone)."
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Chapter 67. WARDRIVING
After three, tedious hours wardriving the port city with unreal looking mountains, Milgrim sits on a bench "glancing at Brown's busily shifting laptop screen satellite images of this port area zoomed in and out; were replaced, were overlaid with yellow grids." With Brown immersed in the screen of his armored laptop, Milgrim realizes that he could probably run away. [367 characters]
Hackers and IT security consultants have been
wardriving since early 2001, both in the USA and in the UK.
Chapter 68. SNAP
The old man tells Hollis that she has arrived at "a most inopportune time" as they prepare to commit "a number of criminal offenses, under both Canadian and American law." The old man assures Hollis that their "motivation is decidedly nonstandard" and they have no intention to harm anyone nor to let Hollis leave until their work is completed.The old man, "trained by the government agency of which I was a member," quickly assesses Hollis character [and googles her Wikipedia entry] offers to make her a witness to a secret history where she can use her celebrity status to act "as a sort of time capsule" for the legacy the old man intends to leave behind. [660 characters]
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