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isn’t going to let on that TOR is broken, any more than we let the Germans know we’d broken Enigma.
    Erik Copley, forty-nine, is married to Jessica. They live in Tucson, Arizona. Jessica is his third wife. The first two managed to escape him and move far, far away. Jessica, however, is in a downward spiral.
    Tomo embedded NFC payments into the latest version of its mobile app, so you could pay for things in person without using a credit card. Jessica was an enthusiastic user, until shortly after she married Erik. Now there are extended periods when she doesn’t leave the house.
    We share purchasing data with a major online retailer so we can improve advertisement targeting. Jessica buys things online during these at-home spans: bandages, pain relievers, an arm sling, even crutches. The purchases are consistent with someone who plays hockey or football, an interest Jessica does not possess. She’s regularly getting the kinds of injuries you’d associate with dangerous sports despite never going out of the house.
    Unfortunately, Tucson is a little too far for me to drive without anyone being aware of my being gone, and I can’t come up with a good excuse to fly there. If there had been a good database conference in Phoenix, or even San Diego, it might be feasible.
    I need a remote hack. Something I can do from here, with an eighty percent or greater chance of killing Erik that will appear to be an accident.
    I run through my gamut of options. I can’t count on getting Jessica out of their home, which rules out several simple and reliable house attacks. He doesn’t work in construction or a manufacturing facility, unfortunately, because lovely and dangerous things happen around heavy machinery. I could compromise his car’s brakes, or maybe lock him inside on a sunny day until he dies of heatstroke, except I used a vehicle attack on the banker in Beaverton, and I’m hesitant to create a pattern by employing anything similar.
    I scan his Tomo messages, searching for anything I could use. He’s having an affair. He goes to strip clubs with his coworker. He likes Japanese anime. Ugh. I’m about ready to give up.
    I could kill him with an elevator at his job if I must. I could stop the thing about eighteen inches off the ground, open the doors a foot. He’d hesitate but eventually try to go through, and when he did, I’d raise the elevator the rest of the way, crushing him between the floor of elevator and the top of the opening. I bought a suite of elevator exploits from a Chinese kid for a thousand bucks that I’ve been saving for a rainy day.
    I probably spend a quarter of my disposable income on zero day attacks. The really good ones, the exploits in operating systems and browsers that can be used for almost anything, are usually too expensive for me to afford, in part because I’m bidding against the NSA, the Russian mob, and the Chinese government, who have big-time budgets for this sort of stuff. Besides, I have my purpose-built backdoors in Tomo to take care of most of those needs. No, I tend to spend my limited cash on vulnerabilities in embedded systems like elevators, cars, and household appliances. They’re more obscure, and at least so far, no nation-states have shown interest in taking people out with their refrigerators.
    The problem with the elevator exploit is that I’m worried about detection. There’d be a thorough investigation, right down to the firmware on the embedded computers, and there’s no way for me to mask my changes.
    I’d eventually like to build a drone for these distant targets. A video made the rounds a while back of a handgun mounted to a quadcopter. The range on a quadcopter is awful, a few miles at best. New, long range, fixed-wing drones under development have solar panels and can stay aloft indefinitely. Combine one of those with a gun, and automated cellphone tracking, and you could kill a person anywhere in the world, fully autonomously, with no way to track back to the