I did not connect the two events. They were about six weeks apart and I did not associate them.
Event number two, I met Paula Billings in the JAVA JOINT coffee line. After we picked up our morning caffeine, she spilled her Mocha on my pants.
Looking back I didn't see where I missed any clues. She was that good. Or maybe I couldn't see the forest for those big brown eyes, sweet smile, and quick wit.
We started talking and by the end of our coffee and bagel, I had her number and her name.
We dated for about three months. When her apartment lease came up for renewal, I asked her to move into my house with me.
She was a runner. Her muscular legs only showed when she had her running tights stretched across those fantastic ass cheeks. Her arm muscles made her a tough gal to tickle and win. Her scrambled egg size titties did have sensitive nipples. I could get her half way to orgasm just with my tongue on her breasts.
Things went well until that fateful Sunday afternoon That I detected that someone had accessed my laptop.
That was the first time that I had ever left my lap top on my desk. I would usually lock the ole Hp in my secret safe.
I had gotten comfortable with Paula being around and frankly I'd begun to trust her. I wanted to trust her.
That brings up event number one. My presentation that was on the afore mentioned laptop.
It went something like this:
"Good evening Sharks, My name is Jack and I'm from Seattle. I want to sell you my laptop for two million dollars. It contains all of the notes and procedures for my electrical breakthrough.
That breakthrough is the ability to harvest lightening.
Lightening is one of the primal features of our earth that has awed millions since the beginning of time. Even Shakespeare alluded to its presence.
A lot of our modern electrical devices operate on Alternating Current. AC runs most of our house hold and industrial applications. It is man made from a rotating field passing a coiled stator. Generating AC consumes lots of power from nuclear, fossil fuel or a hydro source.
Alternating Current has the ability to be transformed (stepped up) to a high voltage so it will not diminish in the long distance transmission lines.
AC however is difficult to store, so it is usually generated and used on demand.
Additionally, a lot of our electrical apparatuses operate on Direct Current. DC runs our computers (TTL) and almost everything that is mobile.
DC is usually stored chemically in a battery. Even if we plug a device into the AC wall outlet, the AC is often changed to DC inside of the contrivance.
Lightening is Direct Current. By the jigawatts of power. Just like in Back to the Future.
There is however one storage device that actually stores DC on the surface of the plates.
That device is a CAPACITOR. That is, it has a certain capacity to store electrons.
So Sharks, if you want your two experts to review my laptop it will require confidentiality agreements and one thousand dollars for one eight hour day.
If your experts recommend that you buy the laptop, the price is two million dollars. Any questions?"
The producers did not want to submit my presentation, so I never got the chance to confront the sharks.
Rejection letters suck.
Back to the part of my story where I found my lap top had been opened.
My lap top had not only had the lid opened, but someone had run a password cracking Compact Disc as a frontal assault on my firewall.
They did not succeed in bypassing my first password, but they had given it one hell of a try. DAMN!
My lap top is not connected to the internet nor does it have a WiFi capability. Someone had to sit in my house and try to hack into and steal my life.
Damn, I had already logged in before I found the intrusion. I assumed that she had put a key stroke logger on my machine so she could come back and make another attempt to get into my files.
My laptop turns on the internal camera every time the lid is opened. I went to that video file with reluctance.
Damn! It was Paula. Damn her!
Yeah, she has her own laptop. There is no reason she should be any where near my machine let alone running a high powered password cracker CD.
Damn! I backed out and left no evidence that I had discovered the attack.
My computer has the hard drive partitioned off so that each file has its own password. The attack could ultimately be successful, but it would take her a lot of time.
I guessed that her plan was to just sneak into my files and make a copy. That way I would never know who or when the theft occurred.
My technology would just show up on the market some day. Probably from some techno super power.
But I had time. It would be a week before I left my laptop on the desk where Paula would be alone with my valuable unrevealed breakthrough.
The next week was busy. I moved all of my tech files onto another computer. In the house I hid mini cameras that were motion activated and recorded sound too.
I wanted to see the whole picture.
During that week I also had Garren add two separate levels of encryption around the empty files in the old Hp.
I needed time to spring a trap.
The next Sunday I left my old laptop on the desk just as I had the week before. I kissed Paula good bye as usual and headed for my bicycle ride with Tim and Kimberly.
Paula said, "I'm going for a short run."
It was agony waiting until I could get home and confirm who had just become my new arch enemy.
The recording confirmed my suspicion. It was Paula and some pencil neck geek. I hadn't counted on her having an accomplice. He just walked in the front door. He didn't even have to ring the bell.
They acted like business associates, not friends or lovers. She was working for someone with a lot of money. She was not a computer hacker. The PNG was the hacker. Paula was just the wedge to get the door open and gain access to my computer.
I was just a pawn in her game of chess. Damn her! That really hurt!
My heart broke and tears were in my eyes. I felt, in a single word, bad.
My stomach had a knot inside until early in the morning. In the dark of the night anger set in. Boy did it ever come hard.
Anger and then a thirst for revenge.
Steal from me and I'll hurt you. Break my heart with lies and then steal from me, I'll hurt you really bad.
