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- Reprograms an electronic card and uses it to hack into a network, then exits stealthily.
- > She looked over at the corner of the room where a device like a convenience store ATM was located. Liberal Arts City was an ocean and water theme park. That made it difficult to carry paper money around, so visitors borrowed an IC card upon entering and it could be charged with electronic money whenever needed. This allowed visitors to go to any facility they wanted with just that one card and small change to use for tips.
- > Mikoto lightly rubbed the chip portion of the IC card with her thumb. She then pushed the card up against the reader for charging it. With a beep, it switched from the simple screen for guests to a cold and efficient screen for the maintenance staff.
- > She had used her electric ability to hack in.
- > She passed her thumb over the IC chip again returning the monetary information back to normal. She then began typing on the keyboard displayed on the touch panel monitor.
- > She wanted all the information on the attractions and shows taking place in the city.
- > It seemed that information was not held on that computer itself, so she started to hack into Liberal Arts City’s local network.
- > “Wah!? ...What the hell?” Mikoto cried out as she looked at the screen.
- > She did not cry out because she was faced with extremely difficult security.
- > It was the opposite.
- > (Wah! Wah! I had heard that Academy City’s technology was twenty or thirty years ahead of the rest of the world, but I can’t believe their system is written in such an old style of language… This is like seeing a car running on coal.)
- > It was so simple that Mikoto felt it might be a trap.
- > But of course, not every student living in Academy City could do that kind of thing. Mikoto was both enough of a genius to go to Tokiwadai Middle School and she was the strongest esper in the category of electrical powers.
- > To her, Liberal Arts City’s security was not even at the level of a bucket with a hole in it. It was more like a bucket made of cotton cloth.
- ...
- > Mikoto completely gave up and exited the depths of the system with even more caution than when she entered it. She logged out from the network, checked to make sure no logs of what she had done remained, and then switched the IC card charger from staff mode to guest mode.
- -*A Certain Scientific Railgun SS: Liberal Arts City* Chapter 2, pages 40-42
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