Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

enough to grate. He would rather use that name than 'Alan'sWorld' but ‘Kassidor’ sounded like some kind of beach toy tohim."I think we should still look for the driver of that cherubon Gordon's Lamp," Elmore said. "Five weeks ago plantingsignals in Thom's gear wasn't very hard.""The signals are still there," Kelvin said."The pulse trains,” Elmore said, “but the incoming signalsthat drove that cherub are no longer coming in. But theprotection applied would work just as well against signalsthat actually originated in Gordon's Lamp and bounced offThom's gear. Thom attached his gear with a DNA, aDiagnostic Network Adapter, and one of the functions in thatdevice is a remap block. The hacker would only need to setthat up to reflect his packets thru Thom's device and on to thecontrols of that cherub.""Yeah, you've been talking to Ava?" Kelvin asked."As a matter of fact, no, it was someone else, but it wasabout this.""Someone else knows about this?""The DNA, yes," Elmore said. "Sometimes it takes a thiefto catch a thief. But I looked up the properties of that adapter.I was able to follow the manual and set up a remappedaddress space and drive a cherub thru it, so I know it can bedone.""It is hopeless," Kelvin moaned."That can't happen now," Elmore said, "The DNA275