over phone hacking

“Yeah, well, I really am in London.”
He must have been having problems of his own, because she could hear the sound of
him lightly scratching at his head over the phone.
“And I’m serious about having to do something about this shutter...”
“I don’t know what you’ve gotten yourself wrapped up in, but that isn’t something you
should ask a girl.”
In response to her exasperated response, she just heard him groan over the phone for a
bit.
Then Kamijou Touma spoke a single short sentence in a careless way.
“...You can’t do it?”
“I didn’t say that,” Mikoto replied without thinking.

***

“Hmm, that would be a Marvelous Lock 225 Passive. Remove two of the clasps below
the panel and the maintenance jack should come out.”
Five seconds after sending a cell phone picture of the electronic lock’s panel to Mikoto,
she had given that response.
“Uuh...” Kamijou responded in shock at her immediate comment. “Hey, isn’t technology
outside Academy City twenty or thirty years off from the technology inside? Do you
really know about the stuff from outside, too?”
“Marvelous Lock is a company that cooperates with Academy City, so the technology
used is the same just with lowered specs,” Mikoto said lightly. “I wouldn’t know exactly
what to do with a lock that was solely developed outside, but I’m not saying I wouldn’t
be able to open it either. After all, the technology would be at a level of twenty to thirty
years ago. Even the security in a military research facility outside of Academy City would
be lower than the login management on a completely outdated computer in Academy
City.”
“...And I can’t even open a padlock.”

“Well, you’re at the technological level of the Edo period.”
As they spoke back and forth, Kamijou operated the electronic lock’s panel as instructed.
“I know I’m the one that asked you...but you really do know what you’re doing with this
kind of thing, don’t you?”
“D-don’t misunderstand. I only taught myself all this to make sure I didn’t interfere with
the functioning of an electronic lock if my power were to malfunction. It isn’t like I want
to be a sneak thief or a cracker or something.”
“Hey, do you think you could tell me what to do a little more slowly?”
His fingertips were moving all over the place while he also used a handkerchief to make
sure he didn’t get any fingerprints on it, but he just couldn’t keep up with what she was
telling him.
Then he heard a noise from within the lock followed by the shutter clattering as it rose.
It may have been because there was no one on the street outside, but the noise seemed
especially loud. This brought a bad feeling to Kamijou and Index’s hearts, but it seemed
the Knights didn’t hear it.
“It opened! Thanks, Misaka!”
“Okay, but you owe me one now.”

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 18, Chapter 6 Parts 5-6