HOSTILE TAKEOVER

TEN

Chapter Eight

Universal Exports

Bond walked into the main outer office the following day and he glanced towards Miss Moneypenny who smiled when she looked up from her desk.

Bond could see the top button of her blouse was struggling, but he didn’t say anything to her. In fact he didn’t say anything at all as he continued towards Q’s office.

As he walked, he could see the people working at four large desks. 27” Macs stood proud amongst a sea of activity as the unseen employees of Military Intelligence section six continued their daily activities.

As the other staff made eye contact, he subtly nodded a greeting but didn’t say anything.

“Woke up on the wrong side of your bed did we?” asked Moneypenny as Bond continued to walk past her.

He continued to walk before replying.

“Who said it was my bed?”

Moneypenny grinned as she stole a glance at his athletic derriere which was covered by a tailor made suit and a black Tom Ford overcoat.

Bond pushed through the glass door into Q’s office which was at the end of the main room.

“Good morning Double O seven.” said Q.

“Morning, you have something for me?” said Bond.

“Yes. Here it is.” said Q handing Bond a cable.

Bond felt the cold plastic in his hands and quickly examined both ends of the cable before glancing up at Q waiting for a response.

“To the average person, this is a standard RJ45 Ethernet cable which plugs into the back of a PC.” said Q taking the cable from Bond.

Bond snatched the cable back off Q as though some kind of challenge had been set.

“It’s not a standard cable?” he asked as he scrutinized the cable once again, but more in-depth now as he studied the eight pins.

“What you have in your hand is a work of art. A thing of beauty.” said Q with a growing degree of passion.

Bond once again looked at this simple ugly piece of plastic and shrugged.

“You have your DB10 and her from Brasil and I have my cable.”

Bond frowned.

“This is a hard drive Key Logger, and also a little Trojan virus which I created.” he said with pride and enthusiasm.

“How does the Virus works.” asked Bond.

“Well after you have plugged the Ethernet cable in, the first folder that they will click on is this one.” said Q with a grin. “People are naturally inquisitive and will always want to take a peek at something which they are not supposed to.”

Q quickly pressed keys on his laptop and brought up a window showing three folders.

 “Once they turn on their machine, the virus will be automatically installed through the Ethernet cable. The Key logger is pretty much instantly installed. They may have to reboot as it’s an exe file, but after that we are in.” said Q.

“And what is a key logger?” asked Bond trying to show a hint of enthusiasm.

“It records every single keystroke. Every click of a mouse.” replied Q. “It records every website you go on. It records what you have bought. It gives us the time and the date on a txt file. Quite boring to you I imagine, but it can be useful to us.”