Phoenix

09.

A few hours later.

Jin was sitting inside the glassed office. Jong-il took all the files soaked in sprinkled water. There was nothing to do at this time.
He was supposed to catch a flight two hours earlier.
A disaster happened here and without knowing the extent, he couldn't make himself just go. He didn't ask Arya anything for an explanation except asking her to give a damage control report just like others.

He was deep in his thoughts. He had questions.
Arya said the culprit was a virus. But that one was nothing similar to normal computer viruses. Other virus destroys files, and data and affects operating system highest. But neither of those causes a short circuit to destroy ten computers at the same time. No matter how powerful the virus is- at the end of the day it is a software program. How can physical damage be done with a software program?

The source of the virus was also concerning him. It was inside an Outerspace signal received by the deep space probe. It was inside NASA!

Arya said that the source is authentic. There is no doubt that it came from outer space. What does it mean? Is it really any alien technology? Trying to invade plants in their mass colonization process across galaxies?

Jin smiled mildly seeing the absurdity of his thoughts. He knew he wasn't living inside a sci-fi movie.
Not alien. He was sure that behind all these shits- only one animal can be responsible. The two-footed apparently "civilized" animal of this planet- is human.

But how did they do it- that is the real question here.

A computer virus is just another invention of those mad computer scientists. And the hackers often use it on others as a part of some sort of humor. In the last few decades, the cyber world has seen few virus attacks done by mischievous hackers. And maximum of those attacks were done just for fun without any definite goal.
This may be one of their pranks too.

But this time- the damage it will bring will break the records of previous rds. It was luck that Arya was an expert in this field and could grasp the situation quickly.

They have four more days ahead to report to the concerned authority before the attack takes place.

Hearing the sound in the door, Jin looked up to see Arya standing there.

Arya came inside and sat across Jin. A sign of tiredness was prominent on her face as if she had just gone through a storm and she sighed and said, "I am ready for the debriefing, Jin."

"This fast!"

"I used my laptop. It's a luck that it wasn't connected to this internal server."

"Mnnn. What did you find?"

"That one indeed was a virus. Unique, one of a kind. Very powerful."

"But how come a virus can affect the hardware that is the question. It's not possible to affect hardware using the software. Normally. But that isn't entirely true. On 25th April 1999, a virus named CIH attacked the computer system of the world. We saw that hardware can be affected by software with CIH. But CIH could just destroy the internal memories in the motherboard."

"And what we saw today?"

"It is much more advanced than that CIH by many folds. I don't how they have done it, but it bypassed all the electrical resistance of all the circuits inside the CPU. So the current flowing through them was a few times greater than the normal time. That's why it burned all the circuits inside it."

"Is it even possible?" Jin wasn't sure. It all indeed seemed like a sci-fi movie this time.

"Theoretically...yes. But if you ask me if it is possible in real life- I have doubts. It's like time travel theory. It is possible in theoretical physics, but impossible in real life. No programming language strong enough has been developed yet to create such a command. This technology is a few generations ahead of us."