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“Or,” Elle carried on, “this is a case of The Princess and the Pea Which I could totally see, because if ever there was a princess…” She trailed off and glared at Harvard “Stop looking at her backside There’s no place for flirting on this job”
His grin icked “If I don’t flirt, hoill I tease her into giving in? There’s a bet to be won”
“Could we please focus on the reason we’re here?” Rachel snapped
Harvard’s wide smile seemed far more intimate than it should have “Tell us what you found on the servers, Elle,” he said
Elle looked up frolass and steel box that served as a coffee table “To cut a long story short, there’s been no ta with the main backup server in the basement It’s locked up like Fort Knox Someone would need access froet in there Any hacking of research files must have been done in the labs”
“And we’re sure we can strike the IT department techs off our suspect list?” Rachel asked
Ever since accepting the job froating the staff and eli them from the suspect pool Unfortunately, all the clues they’d uncovered so far had led the team to believe that a senior staffsecrets And most of the senior members were family
“The IT departulp of her coffee and followed it with a blissful sigh “The way things are set up, they wouldn’t recognize the pertinent information in order to sell it All research files are encrypted before storage The only way you’d knohat they ould be if you knew the research and went in looking for particular information”
“In other words,” Harvard said, “the IT team has the ability to steal from the system but can’t read the files, so they wouldn’t knoas worth stealing”
Elle nodded “The only thing they could do is copy everything and sell it in bulk, hoping whoever bought it could crack the encryption and find so useful”
“It would narron the search for the thief if we knehether they were selling encrypted files or ones they’d already decoded,” Harvard mused
Elle’s attention snapped to him “If they were unencrypted before they were sold, that would mean someone had to have read them here The encryption key is localized to this complex But all TayFor files are automatically encrypted when they’re saved or copied…”
Elle stared at Harvard, but it was clear herYou could al
“We need to run a search for anyone who ht have acquired a copy of the encryption key That would be daet It’s coded into the systeuys knohat it is But…if sohost trail on their coram, we can find it”
“All I’ is blah, blah, blah computers,” Rachel complained “Which ation from Benson Security, so I didn’t need to come here in the first place Surely you could have hacked the system from there?”