Ren He wasn't in a hurry, so Steve didn't have to be in a hurry either. Ren He also specifically asked this matter not to affect the other person's Hawaiian vacation. After all, it was embarrassing to disturb someone's normal life...
Steve didn't think Ren He was embarrassed at all! He returned to New York with his wife and children, ran to a private house in the suburbs in the middle of the night, and carefully looked at the surrounding environment before walking in.
This is his safe house. All the equipment he has used is in the basement, and the name of the owner of the house has nothing to do with him. Even if this safe house is discovered, nothing will happen.
The work of the CIA is mainly concentrated overseas. They have no law enforcement power in the country. No one cares about how to set up safe houses abroad, but it cannot be done at home.
Steve has been working in Europe all year round, but this does not prevent him from being familiar with his home country.
Many people's impression of a safe house should be a sci-fi scene full of weapons and the like. However, the definition of a safe house itself is just a hiding place, and the so-called three cunning rabbit holes are nothing more than that.
Steve's cash and things he can use to escape are all here. When danger comes, he will stay here quietly. Once the situation is irreversible, he will simply disguise himself here and bring new documents.
Leave with the equipment.
Some people also say that safe houses are never safe, so after Steve built this safe house, he only visited it three times. He wanted to keep it out of the sight of the US government forever.
It's actually difficult to steal things without anyone noticing, but for Steve, it just requires more work.
There are different clothes to change at each stage, and the surveillance on the road must be strictly investigated. During the investigation, he cannot appear in the surveillance view. Although he can't understand what Ren He wants him to do now, the problem is that he
I always feel that Ren He is going to do something big.
What if, he was thinking, if something big happened, the U.S. government would never let go of any suspicious person.
Steve came to a house on the list. He started by searching the garage. He was an expert at hiding things and searching for things. What surprised him... was that on the first night, he actually stole something similar to what Ren He said.
The mobile hard drive! It was stuck under the chassis of the car. It was difficult for others to find, but it was too easy for Steve.
Not only under the chassis, but also on the front cabinet of the car, which is the passenger seat, there are two hard drives in total!
Ren He told him before that these data are calculated in terms of t, and these hard drives should be easy to find, but Steve himself never thought that they would be so easy to find!
He decided to stop his actions tonight. He only had to go back and see what was on the hard drive to understand what Ren He was going to do.
What kind of thing would make Ren He raise such a high bet? There are 50 people on the list, and each person stole 100,000 U.S. dollars. The total adds up to a windfall of 5 million U.S. dollars.
With this money, not only can I take care of myself in retirement, but I can also live a very wealthy life!
Steve didn't know that Ren He really spent a lot of money for revenge, just for those seven days of living in darkness in the sewer.
After returning home, Steve disconnected the network cable, turned on the computer and connected the hard drive. He couldn't wait to know what Ren He wanted to do. Disconnecting the network cable was to prevent anything in the hard drive from exposing his stuff through the network. After using this computer
He also planned to throw it away.
Be cautious and cautious, this is what Steve is thinking about now.
The reason why Ren He handed this matter over to Steve was because he knew that Steve was very cautious and he didn't want to be exposed.
However, when Steve opened this undefended hard drive and saw the densely packed files and pictures, his intestines were filled with regret!
The file names are very easy to understand. They are documents issued by the National Security Agency of the United States. There are even CIA and FBI documents intercepted by the National Security Agency. Some of the CIA documents are very clear to Steve!
Damn it, I got on the pirate ship!
What kind of business competition, what kind of bullshit code, Steve now knows very well. The people Ren He asked him to steal were all security consultants under the National Security Agency.
It was also at this time that he learned that agencies under the National Security Agency actually existed in the form of ordinary network security companies.
This is the result of the information asymmetry between the CIA and the National Security Agency. Even the source of information for many CIA operations is the National Security Agency.
Steve is now looking at the confidential files filling the screen on his computer, wishing he could smash the computer and the hard drive! If he gets involved in this kind of thing and is exposed in the future, it will definitely be a life-and-death situation.
And he discovered many things in these documents that even he didn't know about, such as the Prism Project!
When he saw this plan at a glance, he broke into a cold sweat. It turned out that all the people's daily online information and phone information were being monitored. Just enter keywords to search for anyone's clues!
Steve felt that he had to think carefully about whether he had said anything he shouldn't have said before...
Could it be that the boy on the other side of the ocean came here for the Prism Project, or that the other party already knew about the existence of the Prism Project? Otherwise, why did Ren He ask him to use an encrypted satellite phone when the two of them talked before?
Steve was very sensitive and believed that Ren He's goal might be the Prism Plan, but what benefits could Ren He get from this Prism Plan? He knew very well that Ren He had no big connection with the Chinese government. If
Who would be interested in such a plan other than the government?
Eat enough to hold yourself up!
Steve picked up the satellite phone and dialed Ren He, with a very unfriendly tone: "Are you going to trick your old friend like this? Didn't you say it's just an ordinary business code?"
To be honest, Steve almost believed it before, because on the lists given by Ren He, these people's homes seemed to be completely undefended. He never imagined that these people would have anything to do with national security! If it wasn't like this
, Steve would rather risk being convicted of theft than do this!
What a scam! Is this how the National Security Agency does things?!
Ren He was not surprised at all. When all the Snowdens fled the United States to Hong Kong, the United States began the real arrest operation, and it failed...
In fact, U.S. spy operations are far less powerful than those shown in movies, except of course in countries in war zones such as the Middle East...
"What did you find?" Ren He said cheerfully. Now that Steve knows the truth, it means that the other party has really succeeded!
"Is Project Prism what you want?" Steve asked coldly: "Ten million dollars, all the information will be given to you, and we will pay it forward. If you try to threaten me again, we will kill you."
Steve felt that if he continued to deal with Ren He, he would die over money sooner or later!
