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[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

To: [Doug], [Forge], [Kitty], [Paige]
From: [Moira]
Subject: Muir and a Favor

I've promised you all a bit of a retreat at one point or another to Muir. Unfortunately, right now it's coming because I need a favor. We just had an...incident yesterday on Muir and my computer and security systems were breached. We don't know the extent just yet, if it's simply hacking into the database or tampering with the physical parts of it.

I'm heading back to the Mansion in a day or two but I was wondering if any of you would be up for a weekend jaunt back over to take a look at the systems? I normally would open this up to everyone but, well, the security is a little spooked. (It is, however, perfectly safe.)

Paige, I want you to come, if you can, because I'm going to need some help.

Doug, if you wish, you can bring Angie. Kitty, this is extended for Jamie as well, and Paige for Jono.

If all of you wish to come, perfect, it's going to take a few hours to go through everything and multiple hands make the work pass much faster.

Moira

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[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

To: [Doc MacTaggart]
CC: [Forge, JH], [Kitty], [Paige]
From: [Cypher]
Subject: Re: Muir and a Favor

Angie and I can be out there as soon as you need me. Do you want us to take the Purple Pixie Express ASAP?

[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

To: [All]
From: [Moira]

If you could, yes. I think I'm making Scott highly nervous by staying out here longer without someone looking at the machines.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Let me put a hardware security/cracking kit together and I'll be ready in about forty-five minutes.

Trust me, give me an hour with the mainframe and I'll have it physically uncrackable.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

To: [engineer boy]
From: [hacker genius #1]
CC: [hacker genius #2], [lab wondergirl], [scary scottish doctor]

Unless you plan on removing the ability to connect to it at all, there's always going to be a way that someone could get in. Improbable != impossible, especially in a world with mutant powers. The best we can do is reduce the risk level. I'm not saying we can't do a bangup job of that, but there's no such thing as perfectly unhackable.

[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

And, sadly, we need the ability to connect to it offsite since I'm almost always over in the US.

Let's discuss this when you folks arrive, shall we? I'll be able to show you what happened and how they broke in. I'm hoping that you guys can grab Kitty, I want to sit down with her and see if she can retrain some of my folks on security.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Physically, wonderboy. It's up to you code monkeys to work the software firewalls, encryption, and the like.

The concept of the uncrackable system, the inescapable cell, the unbreakable structure - they're not myths or concepts. Just realities I haven't figured out yet.

See you in Edinburgh in a few.

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[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Of course. If you'd like, I can be there in a couple of hours, nevermind the weekend; my professors are very understanding of my strange departures, and as long as there's internet access, I can keep up with my classes relatively well.

Just say the word, and I'm there.

(With post-its and vanilla tea, even.)

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[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

There is all the internet access you could want here. I know the rest of them are catching the Pixie Express, so if you can jump in there with them, I'd be very greatful.

And vanilla tea sounds wonderful right now.

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[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Just for you, I'll resist the temptation of wheedling a really fast flight out of Scott. That's how much I love my Boss Ma'am.

Two boxes it is.

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[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

We'll be in the air before you get this.
-K