Nelly's top secret printer in her bedroom woke her up at 12:01am
she clicked on the table lamp beside the bed in time to see the following text print out
"top secret operation cyber autophagy -----"
the words printed one by one on the ticker tape coming through the cryptographically secure mini-printer .
the paper automatically fed into a shredder after 5 minutes.
"oh yeah, today's the day we test the cyber-security systems of the vendors." Nelly remembered.
Just the afternoon before her boss had asked "Nelly, have you prepared the ransom-ware notices and randomized the addresses?"
"affirmative," she replied, "scheduled to be sent."
at 12:02, those emails would already be arriving in vendors inboxes. each email contained security breaches that her AI hacker agents found in the vendors' systems. each email also contained a ransom EmailCoin address.
"what do we do if they actually send EmailCoin to the wallet?" she asked her boss.
"they get fined and fired." he replied. "the department has been wanting to stockpile these tokens already, and it's their fault if they fail the security test anyway.
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