Running the Shadows

I have been able to clear my mind a little after the transmission from Temple. We have yet to be lifted off from the Chevron and find out if we really are going to get some “time off”. Right now, I am going to spend a couple of minutes to figure out what am I going to do if I have that break.

To be able to stay a viable member of this group, there are answers to questions I need to get. The initial questions, I asked Leech to check into. They are:

• who or what rented the room at the hotel?
• who was Helmut Leer? S-K info?
• who is Raymond A. Temple?
• what is my status in the trix? With my leaving my practice, has anyone picked up on it?
• does Juan have a cousin Lupe?

Hopefully before we get to NYC, I will have some answers. Of course the answers will lead to more questions. But we need a start.

I feel I need to go back to Boston, especially because since it was Juan that got me involved in all of this. He is a vector, albeit possibly an innocent one.

One of the key elements I have to focus on is that over the next few days, I may have a major bulls-eye on my back. With my ploy dealing with the S-K operatives that came onto the Chevron, I opened myself to S-K. They have my name and what I said. And a possible association with Ares. Then again, they figured out Nikita and Merrick. But of all people, S-K will flag me.

Thing is, a little while, I was giving myself shit for what I did there. But now, in my little stupid ploy, I may have given us some strength. Some power.

I am not babbling. A few threads weaved together over the past little bit. I took a few minutes to reorganize my node, partly to make sure what was available to Temple and his men was minimal, I hit my transcripts on Sun Tzu. See that text gave me some peace and hope.

The key is to stay empty, formless. S-K will not have a handle on what I am doing in all of this. My bringing up the father/daughter thing and a possible lawsuit was lame but again will raise questions. There will be confusion.

But I am feeling total fucked up right now. There are too many variables that I don’t have control of or know about. It is so much simpler in the safety of the courtroom. I’ve opened a can of worms and for all intents and purposes I am alone. I don’t have my team to give me background, analysis and projections. I have to do it all myself. Fuck, I don’t think I am up for it. I need a cigarette! And some Sun Tzu. He always had the answer.

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Transmission 98001Z [secure line encoded]

I am going to try to use my time effectively since we have a little down time. I know you mostly like thought my reorganizing my node was a waste of time but it wasn’t. It put prodded a couple of memories I needed. It reminded me of Albert. Yeah, Albert Shaw.

Okay, don’t retch or go into convulsions from whatever memories you are currently getting. Let’s focus on what I thought about.

Remember it was him that got us onto genetic algorithms? Remember we played around with GA to try different things.

Okay, I’ll refresh your memory! GA was a search technique back before the Matrix. It was used to find true or approximate solutions to optimization and search problems. I went a little ga-ga over the topic and spent some time while you dismissed it. I remember you making a comment about “if they ain’t using it now, it must be shit!”

It was when I used a simple GA program to crack the university’s password file you jumped on board. To the point where you thought you could use GA to “simulate” creativity.

Hold on, there is a reason for this! Because I then thought about Ciaran and his babbling about “what is old is new and what is new is old”.

GA is, for a while, used in cryptography. To break codes. Like I did with the password file. The shit I found from S-K may be a high-tech encrypt but there is always a back-door, often using something old.

I know you’ve been still fiddling with some ideas over the past while, trying to use GA to evolve Charlie but what if we use GA to try to crack the S-K codes.

I know, I know! It is computational intensive to run that kind of GA program. But a week or so ago, Grandpa Roy was telling me that the Planck Observatory was going off-line for some time for adjustments. Their processors will be down for some time, and they have the processing power since they are analysing all the telemetry and images from that telescope.

Using those processors, we could try some GA stuff on the files I downloaded from Chevron and maybe start cracking them. Unless they have upgraded the Planck facility, we can stealth in and steal some processor power.

What do you think?

Gideon

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