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With that thought Nancy burst into her office about half an hour ahead of her usual Tuesday morning schedule. She had obviously gotten the e-mail that Spike had sent earlier. "Why didn't you call me when you got back? You've been going ahead without me haven't you? You're going to need to learn about team work someday. Now you'll just have to stop everything and tell me what happened." "Good morning Nancy. Did you sleep well?" "I slept fine, thank you. Now give me an update." "Nancy I really think you're getting a little too close to this project." "I'll be the judge of that." "That's just it. I'm not sure your judgment is as objective as it should be."
"All right, here's what we've got: The probe reported back to a computer at Lexicon Industries. Its mission seems to have been to test Internet nodes that do a lot of traffic pass-through work. It tested them for response time sensitivity to increased workload. It's final report focused on the most capacity constrained of the high volume pass-through nodes. I did some research on Lexicon Industries and here's what I put together." Spike brought up the summary document on Lexicon in Nancy's word processor. She started skimming through it." "So the FBI may be right. They're looking for the key sites to take out?" "It looks that way but it just doesn't make sense. They'd have to eliminate hundreds or thousands of nodes before the overall system was being affected. At that point, the attacks would be more of an issue than the damage to the Internet. It would be more like war in the streets." "And where would they get the manpower for that? You're right Spike, it just doesn't make sense. Maybe they were hoping for different results from the probe. More traffic going through fewer nodes. Maybe they've figured out that they can't attack the net." "Of course you realize, the only way to tell for sure is to go back into Ranger 6. I basically auto-ejected myself from the site as soon as I found the probe result file. I need to see what analyses they've done on the file. That should tell us a lot more about their intentions."
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