<strong>Ghost</strong><br/><br/>Having now realized that he is on the 28th floor, and not the 27th, (the building owner must be superstitious), Ghost still continues his mission without delay.  While one Drone moves to the elevator lobby, the first in the NDR room hacks into the system.<br/><br/>It shows the local alarm points and badge readers and cameras on the floor.  It appears impossible to load more than one camera at a time with the software, so he quickly twins off another few copies while he works.<br/><br/>All the NDR rooms do seem to be connected, and he rapidly gains access to the elevator badge readers, and the lower floor cameras and badge readers.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, the lab does not appear to be labeled in the NDR's database, but since it is not in the NDR room directly below, there are only two rooms below that can be it, unless it does not have a badge reader connected to this system.<br/><br/>Making a fake badge signal proves to be too complicated to even attempt without much more time, so he does the next best thing, turns the security on the elevators off.<br/><br/>The second drone hits the elevator button for the 27th floor and waits, and when the elevator arrives, it moves inside.<br/><br/>The card reader inside now shows a green light, rather than a red, and the elevator doors close and take the drone the short distance to the next floor. The door opens...<br/><br/>While this takes place, a part of Ghost's mind is aware that the presence of the new firewall means another master class hacker is opposing him in protection of the electrical company, and that to leave his own access open to the electric company at this time while his attention is divided could mean a hacking attempt on his own network.<br/><br/>Rather than engage in a duel in cyberspace, does he shut the connection down?<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Notes</div><div class="spoiler_body">He quickly gets a general 'feel' for the NDR room's software.  It seems to be nearly 95% of the massive computing power represeted by an NDR room on every single floor of this building, is going into annoyingly complex algorithms that make the old WW2 German encoding machines seem like babies toys.  And there is one such algorithm for every single card key in the system.  He guesses over a hundred thousand card keys, all with these massive algorithms, preventing them from being reverse engineered.<br/><br/>It seems that some wise idiot has used this program to ALSO control the camera systems.  It works, but it is not a dedicated camera program, and it is already overburdened on resources, so operating cameras takes time.  And the delay is in the server end.  No way to speed up that process.<br/><br/>It would work fine for an investigator after the fact of a crime, but will be little use for someone trying to see through every camera in the area simultaneously.<br/><br/>At best he can open one camera view at a time, taking about a minute each time.  And too many cameras run out of the one NDR room will crash the system entirely.<br/><br/>He wonders what caused such a kludge of a system to exist in the first place.<br/></div></div>