Comment by cestith
3 months ago
Why wouldn’t he use an agent to find the weakness? How would he know what language is on the backend of a web service without already having infiltrated the server? If he’s in the NSA, why wouldn’t he just sneak a vulnerability into common PHP, Nim, or Rust libraries the site is likely to use?
Bro. Come on. Don't overthink it.
I wasn't trying to write a Great American [Cyber]Spy Novel. I banged out a silly short story over maybe 40 minutes while I was eating. Then I went back and cleaned up a bit of the text I didn't like and gave it to the world.
I smiled and chuckled a few times as I was writing, because that's what often happens when an author is making something he's happy with. I hoped a few others would get a chuckle out of it too. I gather that 2 people did, so far. That's good enough for me.
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I’m one of your upvoters. Just making some notes. It’s good fiction, and most fiction has holes when people in the field involved look closely. That’s not a dig at it. I enjoyed reading it enough to engage.