When he was a teenager, he stumbled upon the world of hackers, and realized that he wanted to be one of them. He started lurking on message boards and chat rooms, looking for someone to trust with teaching him the trade. He found a couple people who were willing to take him under their wing, and they started him off with fairly simple program modification hacks. These involved altering features of desktop applications in ways unintended by the software programmers, and had no effect on anybody else’s use of these programs. Pretty soon, he was using brute force executables to crack his friend’s passwords, sending prank messages to third parties under the guise of someone else. These were mostly considered to be nuisances, and he wasn’t so much as on the radar of any law enforcement agency. His mentors tried to teach him programming languages, but he struggled significantly with this. He just could not understand the coding syntax. Code that should have taken hours to write was taking him days, or even weeks. He just was not getting it, so the mentors forgot about him, and moved on. He would never truly be one of them. But he still wanted to use computers for his own personal gain. He continued as an oddly highly experienced script kiddie. He carved his own presence on the dark web with a gallery of useful online tools for other script kiddies to use for whatever they wanted, until they were educated enough to make their own. Once they did—because Kiddie’s website, Boot Force, was such a great early resource for them—they would send him their programs, so Boot Force’s gallery could grow even larger. Despite being so ill-equipped himself, Cormac ‘Kiddie’ Allegro became known as the best source of all things hacking, and this is when the Domestic Affairs Service started taking notice. After what should have been a far shorter investigation done by a joint task force between DAS and the Continental Datawork Agency, Kiddie was finally caught. And that is where his story begins.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
Monday, January 8, 2018
Microstory 751: Boot
When he was a teenager, he stumbled upon the world of hackers, and realized that he wanted to be one of them. He started lurking on message boards and chat rooms, looking for someone to trust with teaching him the trade. He found a couple people who were willing to take him under their wing, and they started him off with fairly simple program modification hacks. These involved altering features of desktop applications in ways unintended by the software programmers, and had no effect on anybody else’s use of these programs. Pretty soon, he was using brute force executables to crack his friend’s passwords, sending prank messages to third parties under the guise of someone else. These were mostly considered to be nuisances, and he wasn’t so much as on the radar of any law enforcement agency. His mentors tried to teach him programming languages, but he struggled significantly with this. He just could not understand the coding syntax. Code that should have taken hours to write was taking him days, or even weeks. He just was not getting it, so the mentors forgot about him, and moved on. He would never truly be one of them. But he still wanted to use computers for his own personal gain. He continued as an oddly highly experienced script kiddie. He carved his own presence on the dark web with a gallery of useful online tools for other script kiddies to use for whatever they wanted, until they were educated enough to make their own. Once they did—because Kiddie’s website, Boot Force, was such a great early resource for them—they would send him their programs, so Boot Force’s gallery could grow even larger. Despite being so ill-equipped himself, Cormac ‘Kiddie’ Allegro became known as the best source of all things hacking, and this is when the Domestic Affairs Service started taking notice. After what should have been a far shorter investigation done by a joint task force between DAS and the Continental Datawork Agency, Kiddie was finally caught. And that is where his story begins.
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