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Accident like McCall's wife, same thing happened. So& no report in the DPS
files. Servies and
pennies they reported accidents, and most of them were. The filch& I
wondered.
More I saw and read, the more McCall bothered me. But I didn't think it was
wise to lean on anyone in
DPS. Not on a feeling.
Looked out my window at the Park. Another sunny day. Been a cloudy winter, and
the sun was
welcome.
Direct-linked Resheed's report. ODs remained the same, roughly, up from the
year before, but no longer
rising. The netless scam numbers were down. Probably would be until the
scammers came up with a new
angle in another week or two. The netops section reported the latest ID theft
techniques. Read through
it, then decided to go over to the other side and talk. I always learned more
face-to-face.
I started to get up from behind the desk. A flash link blazed in from CDC in
Lanta. Read through it.
Phrases leaped out at me, the kind I didn't want to see.
Ebol4 strain has appeared in Nyork and Nengland districts& as with ebol3, a
pairing of SAD nanites
with a modified ebola virus& longer incubation and contagion period& greater
risk of spread,
particularly among netless or those with only baseline nanomeds& cold weather
version thought to have
been engineered by Agkhanate Talibanate for use against Russe Hegemony&
extraordinarily infectious
and will provoke a high fever and occasional convulsions even among
populations with full-spectrum
nanomeds& greater risk to public safety personnel& recommend additional
nano-med boosters for
those in close contact with vulnerable populations&
Another bioweapon coming out of the undeclared West Asian conflicts. All we
needed. World Patrol
kept the lid on heavy weapons. Recsat systems were good for that. Didn't do
null for bioweps.
Linked with Sarao. CDC flash. Make sure it's an allpers. Patrollers need to
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take care with
low-level invisibles .
Oh?
Stet. Didn't explain why, but didn't have to. Yet. Two kinds of
invisibles those removed from the
NorAm database illegally, like by Kemal's operation, and those imported from
West Asian areas. No
point in admitting they existed. Not when DPS couldn't do anything except with
the ones we caught.
Looked back out to the Park, waiting. Still sunny and green. Not so bad when
the snow covered the
grass, but felt wrong in late winter and early spring when the trees hadn't
leaved out.
Done, Lieutenant, Sarao linked back.
Thanks. I stood and walked out of the office.
Sarao looked up from the consoles. Still needed screens to handle more than
one visual input.
"Going to the other side. Had some questions about the netops report.
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She nodded.
The ramps were empty. They should have been. So was the lower lobby off the
garage. Could smell a
hint of ozone restraint loops. Always smelled that way when someone was carted
in under restraint.
Passed Sorgio on the way up. Nodded at each other.
Netops was quiet. Sergeant Darcy was by the consoles.
"Lieutenant.
"Sergeant. I was going through your latest report. Someone else counterfeiting
GILs?"
She offered a professional smile. "It's more elaborate than we'd have
suspected. They take a T-samp
from the victim, then implant the phony GIL in place of a real one, surrounded
by an Isup barrier. The
GIL reads positive, and so long as no one takes a samp& it works.
"What about the victim?"
"Disabled, usually, in some sort of accident. Badly mugged, in some cases.
Usually high sariman, or
independent professional.
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"Where no one else watches the personal or business accounts closely.
"Stet.
"Why not dead?" I asked.
"Then the worldnet closes down that GIL, and the feits can't get at the
victim's assets. Usually, it's
someone well off and single, but not filch. Filch have barriers, and
advocates. And families who get upset
at disappearing assets.
"How long will this last?"
"Month& two. Netpros already flooding the nets with the scam stories, and
offering services to protect
assets. Be too much trouble, and too low a return before long.
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