Chapter 1403 A White Witch Sacred Secret(Taboo/Incest):>Ep49

• Tuesday, Barnes was in his office when Sam gave him some news about the so-called "ski-lift" computer code that she thought should be shared with a few others. Pope, Stern, Billy Buffalo and two computer-savvy associates were available for a quick meeting. The main problem was that Sam was trying to communicate an idea that Barnes could not wrap his mind around, so he asked for help.
• When everybody was there Sam asked that the meeting be put on record, that was part of their revised deal. Then she said that she had tried to "pull" the ski-lift program, but the person who installed it had been very clever, setting a "trip wire." It was not obvious, but she found that removing the ski-lift security problem triggered another routine, an avalanche that would reverse the ski-lift before it collapsed, use it to send partner's passwords and account information to a dark web site, then crash the "secure" system to random digital rubble. She called a nuclear hand grenade with the pin gone.
• She poke in past tense so Barnes asked in panic, "Has this already happened?"