17

Bette’s phone rings.

“Bette Porter speaking.” Bette says.

“Hello, Ms. Porter, this is Andy Jenkins from the FBI. We’re at the house of the address you got. It’s empty. It seems to have been emptied last night or this morning. It’s a paper here, from yesterday.” Andy says.

“Damn. We are working like crazy here, to see how this could’ve happened. It shouldn’t be possible. I’ll let you know as soon as we find something.” Bette says and they hang up.

“Gateways through the network by installing a hidden bridge. Who the hell has done this?” Bette thinks out loud as she types away on her computer. “It must be here somewhere. The IP address or MAC address, something.” She continues talking to herself. She then suddenly remembers what Tina said about Espen. He knew more about computer than everybody thought he knew. ‘Can he hack?’ Bette thinks to herself. She picks up the phone and dials the 4 digit number into Espen’s office.

“Security, Espen her.” Espen says in Norwegian.

“Espen, kom in på mitt kontor.” Bette says in her not so bad Norwegian. (Come into my office)

Minutes later he’s there.

“You called.” He says, now in English. He knows Bette talks better in English.

“How good are you with a computer?” Bette asks.

“Pretty good, I would say.” He replies.

“Define pretty good.” Bette asks.

“I can do pretty much everything, why do you ask?” He asks.

“Can you hack your way through a network?” Bette asks.

“Eh, and look for what?” Espen asks.

“An IP address or a MAC adress that was used to break into NSA’s servers through our ComMeet server. You know that program, right?” Bette asks.

“Yes, I do, I’ve used it a few times. So, there’s been a break in?” Espen asks surprised.

“Yes… Espen, what I tell you in here, stays in here, do you understand?” Bette asks.

“Off course.” Espen says. He’s really concentrated now.

“Okay. The hackers has gotten out a blueprint of the White House and the whereabouts of the president for the next month. We’ve got the address of the hacker, but we got there to late. We need to find more.” Bette says.

“My bet is that they have encrypted the network card, so it won’t show the MAC address. That is what I would’ve done. But, I could also be wrong. They might have overlooked it.” Espen says.