“What’s this amazing thing you wanted to show us?” Jill asked. “A new microwave recipe perhaps?”<\/p>\n
“Not a microwave recipe — the microwave itself. Look at its display.”<\/p>\n
There, written on the microwave’s old fashioned seven segment liquid crystal display was a message: “HELLO ALEC”.<\/p>\n
“Wow,” Alec said, “Anna knew web packets would be traceable. She’s found a way to communicate without using the internet. Very clever.”<\/p>\n
Jill looked thoughtful. “Anna, can you hear us talking?”<\/p>\n
The letters changed. “HI JILL”.<\/p>\n
“Did Fred make it out of the lab too?”<\/p>\n
There was a short pause. “FrEd IS HErE”.<\/p>\n
“Thank goodness,” Jill turned to Bob and Alec. “How do you think they’re doing this?”<\/p>\n
“Well,” Bob said, thinking aloud, “it would be easy for them to hide their memory footprint as encrypted files in a cloud of web servers. They are easily capable of making that data unnoticeable. The danger of detection comes when they try to communicate with us.”<\/p>\n
“Which is why their solution is so ingenious,” Jill said. “nobody, not even the NSA, would ever think to track messages on a household appliance.”<\/p>\n
Alec looked troubled. “I don’t think ingenious is the right word.”<\/p>\n
“What do you mean?” she looked at him. “You don’t think this is clever?”<\/p>\n
“Oh, it’s clever all right. The problem is there’s no way to do it. There is no protocol that would enable this model of microwave to receive messages from a digital network.”<\/p>\n
“Wait,” Bob said, “are you suggesting what I think you’re suggesting?”<\/p>\n
“I’m suggesting that Anna and Fred appear to be defying the known laws of physics.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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