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    Chapter 5.
     
     
Mick O'Malley – enjoys slurping ramen in noodle restaurants.   (2 comments)
     
    The next morning, Mick received a response from Vince to arrange the details of their upcoming meeting.   This time, Vince had managed to sign his mail properly with PGP – a good sign for the future.
    Being Wednesday, it was time for Mick to change all his passwords.   He thought for a few minutes then typed:
     
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    Mick borrowed a butane lighter from a smoker and used it as a makeshift soldering iron to repair the broken Ethernet connector in the NOC, restoring full Internet connectivity and making the techs happy.
    Later, he was listening to a rather dull discussion of attack classifications when someone sat down next to him.   He looked over and saw it was Kateryna.
    “Good morning, Mick,” she said quietly.
    “Good morning,” he replied evenly.
    “Enjoying the presentation?” she asked, leaning towards him.   Today she was wearing white jeans with a wide belt, and a denim shirt, and looked pretty good.   And, he could smell her perfume, not a common thing in this country where cigarette smoke seemed to infuse everything.   He flashed a mock frown at her and she smiled at him, producing an instant reaction.   “I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask you – could we get a coffee?”   He said yes without a moment's hesitation and followed her out of the room.
    “I have overall design responsibility for our company’s future firewall products,” she began as they sat down with their coffees, “and I'm having trouble figuring out how they can handle new services such VoIP and video conferencing.   Here’s the problem.” Kateryna launched into a description of the problems she was having.
    Mick listened to her description, occasionally interrupting with clarifying questions.   He made some suggestions that he thought were fairly obvious, but, judging by Kateryna’s reaction, apparently were not.   A half an hour flew by as they conversed over their coffees, and the topic wound down.
    “Wow – this has been really, really helpful, Mick.   Thanks a lot!” she said with feeling.
    “My pleasure, Kateryna,” he replied, smiling at her.
    “Please, call me Kat,” she responded.
    “My pleasure, Kat.”
    They passed the next few minutes in silence, as Kateryna thought hard about her firewall problem, and Mick thought hard about her.
    Then he noticed Kateryna looking past him, and turned to see Liz eyeing him with a curious look.   He got to his feet.
    “Liz, come over and meet Kat.   Kat, this is Liz,” he started.
    “We met earlier this morning,” Liz said as she shook hands with Kateryna.   “Hi Kat.”
    “Nice to see you again, Liz.   Mick is helping me with some firewall issues...” she began.
    “Really?” Liz replied, giving Mick a look.
    “Ah… why don't you join us?”   Mick asked.   As Liz was making up her mind, Kateryna glanced at her mobile and announced she had another meeting and had to run.   She took her leave as Liz sat down and ordered her drink.
    “I had no idea you were so interested in firewalls...” Liz began.   Mick rolled his eyes.
    “I was just helping her with a few issues – she did help us last night during the zero day...” he replied.
    “Sure.   Whatever.   Look, Mick, I’m not going to make things difficult for you.   I think I have a good idea of where things stand between us,” she replied.   She quickly turned the conversation to her shopping yesterday and about an industry acquisition that