One of the things that's kept Hiro mostly out of Milliways since the whole Daemon thing is a little matter of vanishing ex-hackers ( Read more... )

Hiro is back in the lab, trying to figure something out. There was no real reason for the cure not to work, but the fact is, it didn't. Not completely, anyway. But it should've been complete. Which leaves Hiro wondering: what the hell went wrong?

So he's looking at the vaccine code scrolling past on a vidwindow. It's not an exact copy of SnowScan ( Read more... )

When you're the top name in computer security, you have a certain reputation to maintain. Having one of your major clients (who is also entangled with your own company in ways that would probably violate antitrust laws if anyone was still enforcing those laws) suffer a colossal security breach right under your nose is not conducive to maintaining ( Read more... )