Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

"It must have logged her in, her password was good andshe had the privilege to do that. All her gear was invisible."With a grim face the colonel wrote that on her virtualnotepad which was fully rendered as a flip-over spiral-boundpaper one from a twentieth century cop show. "What did shesee?"Thom went to his scope and brought up the old settings.Family after family of pulse trains came up, thousands ofthem. He could scroll thru them in each direction to the limitsof his instrument. There was one for each particle in eachatom that he had entangled."What do they mean?""I don't know, she said I was learning a lot but was stilltoo limited. She said I should plot against bit size.""So she tried to advance your studies?" Glayet wasclearly puzzled by that. "I would hardly expect that of anenemy agent.""She's an enemy agent?" Now he started to sweat in spiteof his med panel."We don't know that," Glayet said, "But we cannot besure that she is not at this point.""How could an enemy agent get on board?""I'm sorry but that information is classified for securityreasons.""And I don't have clearance for it?""Need to know only. The hole has been fixed and yourstudies will not be affected. In fact we are more sure of the171