Part 14: The Counter-Strike
By 2:00 p.m., the executive suite of Vance Capital, our main market competitor, was under an administrative block.
The senior managing director sat frozen at his glass desk as three state prosecutors entered his office.
I stepped onto the floor, my expression stone-cold as I dropped the Newark warehouse logs onto his desk.
"Your system has been actively downloading encrypted data packets from an unauthorized server in Newark," I stated.
The director’s face turned an ugly shade of ash as the room's main display monitors flashed red.
The unredacted transaction records showed a sequence of sixty automated payments routing to Richard's secret account.
"We had no knowledge that the source code was stolen from your infrastructure, Harrison!" the director stammered.
"The contract was presented to our board as an authorized technology license agreement by Vanessa Kensington."
"The license carried a forged digital seal, sir," Naomi Pierce countered, presenting the grand larceny warrants.
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The compliance officers immediately began dismantling the firm's main server connections, halting their entire development line.
The competitive threat was neutralized before a single line of stolen code could be commercialized in the market.
