I-038-Oliver: Spanial (Hyperspace to Roseman)
Common Room – Jennie [211.459]
There’s probably nothing else consequential with the Jennie conversation. Oliver has a sense she’s open for conversation – probably of a technical or work-related nature – if he’s interested, but won’t press if he wants to be off and about things.
Karmen’s Cabin – Money Card Reader [211.462]
Oliver visits Karmen on GG01 on 211.462, having finished, but not tried in practice, using the Money card reader. Previously she handed him a bunch of cards , presumably with Money on them, and a bunch of unauthorised cards, hoping he could transfer the Money to them. Karmen’s in her cabin, looks like she’s playing with the Dominion equivalent of a spreadsheet.
“Captain. Got a moment?”
“For sure, come in Oliver,” her face brightens hopefully at the sight of the Money card reader.
Background
Things Oliver has discovered:
- The Money card reader is authorised to someone named ‘Backus Thurston-Thurston-Thurston’.
- Another user is authorised, name of ‘Schafer Wentworth’.
- He also has their Mer IDs
- It’s configured to make transactions attributed to a private business partnership organisation named Xeno Culture, for which the above two names seem to be representatives/employees.
- Basically, he’s figured out the trick to bypass security to make someone an authorised user.
- Using an actual tag and fingerprint scan is trivial and he’s pretty confident that will just work.
- It’s possible that he could fake a user ID or pretend to use one of the pre-registered ones – but that’s trickier and if he screws it up it might cause problems.
- He can’t write to an Unauthorised Money Card with a retail Money card reader, cards have to be Authorised to conduct transactions.
- Presumably, the Dominion Bank can do that, but he’ll need to do more work (and probably a lot) if that’s what Karmen wants
That’s the status as he enters Karmen’s cabin – he has a minimum functional solution, but it does leave a clear audit trail to whoever authorises themselves as users and then processes transactions – if that’s a problem. Noting fyi, that Dominion Money cards maintain an audit trail of the transactions conducted using them.
For info, link to Money Card Readers reference.
Jennie:
Oliver is happy to have a chat but I feel like he has a lot to do so knowing that he would probably be focussing on a doing a lot with most of his time.
Karmen
“I’ve got it working, I think. But it’s not silent, it still shows who authorises the transactions and processes them. I can register you as an authorised user and it can look legitimate, which might cause some issues if you pick up dirty money, or I’ll need to go back and do something else if that doesn’t work for you.” He passes the term dirty money by without inflection or emphasis, he’s rather nonchalant about it.