Red Rock Island (Damian Green Book 1)

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Authors: Alec Peche
software. He set to work figuring out who had access to the system. Once he had their names and the username for FBI employees he went to work trying passwords. Two hours later, he found what he was looking for and was in the system. He then sent the fingerprints in for a match that were lifted from the crime scenes of the five cases he selected and Natalie confirmed as being the first cases to work on. In total, there were fifty sets of prints to match. He checked the database, looking for ways to mirror it onto his own computer. Sure it wouldn’t be the most updated as he assumed that new entries are added to the database every day, but given that these were cold cases that they were researching, it should work for most if not all of their cases. 
     
    The first set came back with a match, and he set that information aside for the moment while he looked for a way to copy the database. It was so large that he couldn’t do a single copy and go. He recognized the company that created the database for the FBI and knew how to write queries to copy entire columns of data from their database. The difficulty with copying a column at a time was that it was a relational database, data in one column having a relationship to data in another column. It wouldn’t do him any good to have just a column of fifty million fingerprints, without the corresponding names to match. Even the names were probably not enough given the frequency with which people’s last names were Smith or Garcia.
     
    This was such a huge database he thought his best bet was to implant a backdoor command string into the database that would allow him endless access. The fingerprint data he located in the database would give Natalie a head start on her investigation, while she waited for the same information to come through the proper route from the FBI. Since he understood commands for this database, he had the backdoor access implanted in no time and then he looked at the coding that produced matches of fingerprints. He decided that at some point he would leave an anonymous message with the Bureau of how they could speed up their fingerprint matches.
     
    Their program matched the thirty points of one fingerprint to another. Damian thought it would go faster if you matched the first six points and then moved on to more decisive matching with sixteen points of match which seem to be the criminal justice standard. Mathematically, it would be faster to run a large data search in that manner, than trying to match the first sixteen from the start. Having set up his backdoor and his data run, he walked away from the terminal to look again at the cold cases. He had some ideas that he listed on paper and sent to Natalie along with a summary of what he’d done with the database. Of course the second part of the message was written in code as he wanted no trail to his doorstep of his hacking successes.
     
    He’d let the fingerprint matching program run, and over the next three days, he was able to identify about eighty percent of the prints found at the scenes of the five cases. As it came in, he would send it to Natalie, then forget about the cases as he went back to inventions. In the back of his head was a worry about having Trevor visit the next day. It would be his first social call in seven years, before the death of his family. He decided, when Trevor arrived, he would use his drone to move the beer and then give Trevor the choice of riding his zip line or walking up the hill. His boat captain would let him know when he left the Richmond Marina and then Damian would know that Trevor would arrive in about twelve minutes. He had chips and dip and meat to barbecue. The house was clean and he could offer his guest tea, coffee, or water. His couch had plenty of space for two guys to sit and watch a basketball game.
     
    The Bay was his source of water. Damian had built a small desalination filter that pumped water out of the bay and up to a tank close to his house and

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