Dear Diary
Someone tried to hack into my laptop today. Whatever they used, it's very sophisticated in the way it sneaked its way in. It bypassed my firewall and the conventional anti-virus measures I had in place and was busy disabling them before I discovered it. It even bypassed some of the specialised tools I have set up. Just as well I work in computer security.
Anyway, I'm looking at it now. It seems to work in two stages. The first part is fairly small and mostly works to cripple any defences and then download a much bigger set of files. I've looked at the second set of downloads; sublim.exe and sublim.cfg. The executable is big, nearly 120MB in size. I've looked at the config file but it's encrypted. Anyway, I managed to stop the first part before it could install the program. I wonder what it is? I'll have to find out.
In the meantime, things are slowly going downhill with Jason and me. He's tried to be patient and understanding but I think his patience is running out. I don't know what to do. Just the thought of doing it makes me lock up and shut down. It brings back too many memories. He can't understand what it's like and I can't tell him.
God, just writing this is making me shudder inside with revulsion. Got to stop. Night.
Dear Diary
I contacted some of the police officers I know involved in tracking down cyber crime. They said I was very lucky to stop Sublim. It's very new and they know little about it. What they do know is scary.
Apparently it's designed to project a set of subtle subliminal messages and images on the screen. Stuff that the viewer will barely notice. The reason it's so big is it contains a lot of facial recognition software. It watches the viewer through the laptop's web cam. Things like pupil dilation, micro muscle movements, pulse rate in the neck, blood flow to capillaries and so forth. It uses this information to refine the messages it projects to maximum affect. It's this adaptive facility that makes Sublim so effective in getting the message through. Those messages are controlled by whoever installed Sublim via a net connection Sublim maintains. The controller can see you via the web cam and can upload any messages and images he or she likes.
The police have been trying to cope with a slowly growing international ring who have been using Sublim to turn women into their sex slaves. Women who will do anything to please their cyber Masters. The thought of that makes my blood run so cold. I just want to curl up into a ball crying, thinking that someone may have done it to me again like daddy.
Time for bed. I hope Jason is asleep.
Dear Diary
Margaret and I went out for lunch again. Why on earth to I do that? I know we work together but we don't have to do lunch. While we were eating she regaled me about a threesome thingy she and her husband had with another woman. How much fun it was to see her husband making love to the other woman. Then she told me how she and the woman kissed, sharing her husbands, um, fluids. God that is gross.
Last time we had lunch she told me about her gang bang. It's really disturbing. She tells me these things and a part of me, a very old part of me, cringes, remembering what daddy did to me as a child. Another part seems almost envious of her freedom. That she can do these things if she wants while the thought of me doing them makes me want to hide in a deep dark hole. I'm like a moth drawn to the flame. It burns but I can't help it.