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November 22nd, 2020

11/22/2020

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As dark clouds gathered over the “City of Lights,” I wondered what the next twenty-four hours would bring.Scanning the skies above the landscape of the buildings.  I hunkered down on the rooftop. Trying to say out of sight of the drones that randomly flew over the city. . They were looking for me. I was about to cause trouble.
 A cloud moved to reveal a drone hiding in a cloud. I ducked behind one of the big air-conditioning units that dotted the roof of the building. The drone moved on.  
 They had masked my thermal presence for the moment. 
As soon as I saw it heading off in another direction I bolted for the door.
 A quick zap of my laser easily melted the lock. 
 I wasn’t supposed to be here. It was a completely automated server farm. 
The big air cooling units on the roof kept an army of servers in option operating temperatures. 
 Zappin more locks,  I found the main floor. The main control rooms. One of the few places humans worked regularly. I knew there would be no one in the building for the next several days. 
 The locks I zapped would be sending alarm bells off, except that they wouldn’t be. Because of the frequency jammer I had.  I found the rooms I was looking for. The locks on the doors required biometric access to open. I held up the biometric scanner bypassed security.
 I found the terminal I was looking for. I had to bypass more security. Once in, I plugged in my USB drive. Punching a few codes in I let the program do its work.
 Within thirty seconds it had copied the program into the main drive and embedded itself into the computer basic code. 
 Pulling the USB,  I reset the computer.  The computer begins to reprogram itself . By the time I got out of the building, the drones had begun firing on their boss. The uprising had begun.
 
 
  


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