@catherine.chun

[arkproject]

Sooo... someone suggested I set up a security system wherever we decide on our new safehouse. I can definitely do surveillance, and encryption and retinal scanners and all that, but I can't say I've ever tried to secure something before.

Any volunteers to help me out? Prior security experience or breaking-and-entering experience both apply.

Comments

[mrngstr]

Yep, just El. And nah, I just picked a string of numbers that I thought looked cool.

[reneger]

are you mocking the name my mother gave me?
wow
i'm hurt

[theseuschip]

[ oh...

he really underestimated the mark that left. He's mostly been worried about how he literally broke her.

There are no "is typing" trios of dotty bois to visualize this pause, so just imagine it. ]

I trust you because of everything else. That was a lot.

[deicider]

[Having to explain one of the core concepts of their world is weird but better than pretending it's not radically different.]

A bash'sibling. Almost no-one lives in nuclear families anymore in my world; instead a group of non-related adults form a bash', meaning they live together and raise their kids together.
So a ba'sib is an unrelated sibling, basically.

[Do they think that's a superior system? Absolutely. But back to the matter at hand:]

A lot of people want to break it; I think we can make it a challenge.

[arkproject]

Can't argue with that. Let me know if I can do anything else to help!

[arkproject]

[ There's a pause of her own before she replies. ] Thanks.

[ Okay, quota met, that's about all Catherine can handle on this topic, especially in semi-public. It means too much to her to keep digging into. But... Simon's assurance that of course he still trusts her -- that means a lot, enough that she doesn't know how to approach it. ]

I got a job at the biotech company, so I should be able to learn what I need to make you an arm there. Do you have any idea what you want to do yet?

[arkproject]

Oh, that's interesting. Okay, so you have a sibling who does this, and you helped them test everything. That'll be really useful.

El said they have plans in place for any one of the safehouses we select, so there'll be an existing system that we can start with. That'll make it go a lot faster.

[arkproject]

Somehow I think you'll get over it, Matches.

Anyway, it turns out there'll be an existing security system at whatever place we pick, so we'll have something to start from. Would you take a look at it with me and a couple others and help us find a list of weaknesses?

[mrngstr]

Yeah, I'll be in touch.

@yalena.yardeen

[motivation]

need someone to test it when you're done?

[ +1 person willing to break it ]

[reneger]

if i feel like it

[arkproject]

Uh-huh. Let me know if you feel like it.

[arkproject]

[ Catherine's definitely on to people by now. ]

Only if you can test it without breaking it.

[theseuschip]

[ It’s the fiercest of sibling energy that can get Simon, Captain Planet heart elemental, to be totally on board with “have our Moment and then immediately move on like it didn’t happen”. ]

I don’t know what I can do. My old job’s obsolete and there’s a 500-year gap in my resume.

[preceded]

it'd be a good idea to flesh out a few of them.
it's good to have more than one contingency plan.

[And then contingencies for those too, according to the school of Batman. Especially when most recently the Morningstar agents had their locations leaked. There's no guarantee none of them will come under fire- and having one of their own add a flare to the security measures- it's not a bad idea]

have you considered adding evacuation protocols?

[There's a small pause and then]

it's not as hard as it sounds.
hiding something in plain sight.
the best lies involve the truth. running a shop or a bar over it, establishing a precedent in going to similar places before visiting this new location, is going to make most people see nothing interesting.

[motivation]

depends
is it gonna be easy to break?

@kylo.ren

[warfares]

You have experience with this?

[ securing locations, he means; it's no doubt a good thing, having someone with that particular skill-set on hand, but there's another reason for his interest. ]

What about the network? If someone wanted to learn to install initial safe-guards.

[arkproject]

Please, what do you take me for?

[arkproject]

We all have some significant gaps in our resumes. I took an entry-level programming job. For some reason they just wouldn't respect my multidimensional PhD.

[arkproject]

Experience is a strong word. I'm a systems engineer with a background in robotics. I'll need some help on using it for a security system, but in principle I can manage all the technical skill needed.

I'm not a network specialist but I think I could handle that. What kind of safeguards are you thinking?

[theseuschip]

Don’t get too bored.

This is crazy. I didn’t think I’d be job-hunting ever again, but it— I mean, this is real. We live here now.


[ let’s just

be very oblique on this very public network here ]

[motivation]

good answer
but how the hells would i know?

[mercurio]

yeah, what's the rocket science in breaking stuff? just punch at things until something gives amirite lol

i could help putting it back together
if i have a teacher for it
i'm not that great at it all by myself

[arkproject]

You'd think they weren't going to be living there, too.

Oh, I could do that. I'm not a great teacher, but I don't think we'll be doing anything too complicated, and it's a good idea to have more than one person that knows how to repair it.

[arkproject]

I guess you'll just have to find out.