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"Ok, you asked about my intel source." Jennifer says to Tanner once they're all seated in the living room. "Well here she is. Meet Ivy."
"Ivy? Nice ta meetcha." Tanner says politely, then looking at Jennifer; "I don't get it. She a hacker or something?"
"Kinda. Do you like my body?" Ivy asks in her best seductive voice; "Jennifer had it custom built. But I've done a lot of upgrades since then."
"What?" Tanner asks in surprise.
"This body, it's a robot." Ivy tells him; "My consciousness has been transferred to it, but my real brain is...someplace else."
"No way." Tanner says skeptically.
Holding up two fingers on each hand; "Scout's honor!" Ivy says. "This body is state of the art. I can actually eat and drink, small quantities of course. The skin feels real, I even have fake blood under that so if you cut me I will bleed. You could even have sex with me and you'd never know." She says with a wink.
Tanner looks back and forth between the two women in confusion for a moment when Jennifer explains; "When I found her Ivy was a genetics experiment in the creation of brain tissue for medical purposes. Trying to regrow brain tissue to help those that have alzheimer's, or received brain trauma of some sort. But what none of the scientists realized was this brain they had created and mutated was actually conscience. With my telepathy I was able to communicate with her for the first time. So, I freed her, and helped her discover other abilities that she wouldn't have even known about otherwise."
"Other abilities?" Tanner asks.
"Ivy can make machines and electronics do whatever she wants." Jennifer tells him. "It's called Telemechanics. And using that ability Ivy's brain is tapped into a network of communications satellites and next generation computer hardware to hack any system in the world. What makes her special is her mutant abilities allow her to do it all at the speed of thought. She thinks it, it happens. Plus she doesn't actually do any hacking in the normal sense. Her abilities means that firewalls, password encryption, and all the other standard security features don't actually exist for her. For all practical purposes, she is a 'ghost in the shell'. Leaving no trace, no IP address, nothing to show that she was even there."
"And this lets you...?" Tanner asks in confusion.
"Almost any computer that links to the World Wide Web can be looked at. Even those that are supposedly locked from web access if there's a cell phone or other device I can access near it." Ivy explains.
"So basically a 'Snowden' thing then." Tanner says.
"In a way." Ivy admits; "But about a hundred times faster, and I've learned how to do it subconsciously. Which means that while we are sitting here having this conversation my conscious mind is right here, in this robot body; but my subconscious is busy trolling the Net and telecommunications systems for any of a couple hundred keywords and phrases in every language and dialect. At a speed of several hundred a second."
"So you're eavesdropping on everyone in the world?" Tanner asks in shock.
With a laugh, Ivy says; "Not everyone, and certainly not at the same time. You should understand that there are over seven billion mobile devices in the world right now. And that doesn't include standard home and business computers."
"Which is why we don't catch every bad thing before it happens." Jennifer says; "It's just not possible, even if I had an army of Ivy's. But we do catch some things that we can act on, so we do."
"You know, Director Samuels had a hunch you had a super-hacker." Tanner tells them; "I guess he was right, sort of. So do you eavesdrop on the CIA and SECTOR too?"
Grinning at him; Jennifer says; "No need. My security clearance gives me total access to pretty much any U.S. Government system. And our Communications Satellites don't cover the globe, yet. So Ivy mainly sticks to the super criminals and terrorist types here in the good ole U.S. of A."
"Honestly I work best if I have some sort of lead first." Ivy tells him; "You know, something I can start looking for. Otherwise it's kinda like playing the Lottery."
"We've gotten lucky a few times, and naturally as suspicious as Jack Samuels is, his mind is blowing things out of proportion." Jennifer says; "But we do have a system in place that no one else does."
"You know, I'm supposed to report all of this?" Tanner somberly tells them.
"I know." Jennifer assures him. "I thought about it, and decided I'd rather be as honest with you as I can, than have Jack send someone else digging for something that doesn't exist."

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"Ok, you asked about my intel source." Jennifer says to Tanner once they're all seated in the living room. "Well here she is. Meet Ivy."
"Ivy? Nice ta meetcha." Tanner says politely, then looking at Jennifer; "I don't get it. She a hacker or something?"
"Kinda. Do you like my body?" Ivy asks in her best seductive voice; "Jennifer had it custom built. But I've done a lot of upgrades since then."
"What?" Tanner asks in surprise.
"This body, it's a robot." Ivy tells him; "My consciousness has been transferred to it, but my real brain is...someplace else."
"No way." Tanner says skeptically.
Holding up two fingers on each hand; "Scout's honor!" Ivy says. "This body is state of the art. I can actually eat and drink, small quantities of course. The skin feels real, I even have fake blood under that so if you cut me I will bleed. You could even have sex with me and you'd never know." She says with a wink.
Tanner looks back and forth between the two women in confusion for a moment when Jennifer explains; "When I found her Ivy was a genetics experiment in the creation of brain tissue for medical purposes. Trying to regrow brain tissue to help those that have alzheimer's, or received brain trauma of some sort. But what none of the scientists realized was this brain they had created and mutated was actually conscience. With my telepathy I was able to communicate with her for the first time. So, I freed her, and helped her discover other abilities that she wouldn't have even known about otherwise."
"Other abilities?" Tanner asks.
"Ivy can make machines and electronics do whatever she wants." Jennifer tells him. "It's called Telemechanics. And using that ability Ivy's brain is tapped into a network of communications satellites and next generation computer hardware to hack any system in the world. What makes her special is her mutant abilities allow her to do it all at the speed of thought. She thinks it, it happens. Plus she doesn't actually do any hacking in the normal sense. Her abilities means that firewalls, password encryption, and all the other standard security features don't actually exist for her. For all practical purposes, she is a 'ghost in the shell'. Leaving no trace, no IP address, nothing to show that she was even there."
"And this lets you...?" Tanner asks in confusion.
"Almost any computer that links to the World Wide Web can be looked at. Even those that are supposedly locked from web access if there's a cell phone or other device I can access near it." Ivy explains.
"So basically a 'Snowden' thing then." Tanner says.
"In a way." Ivy admits; "But about a hundred times faster, and I've learned how to do it subconsciously. Which means that while we are sitting here having this conversation my conscious mind is right here, in this robot body; but my subconscious is busy trolling the Net and telecommunications systems for any of a couple hundred keywords and phrases in every language and dialect. At a speed of several hundred a second."
"So you're eavesdropping on everyone in the world?" Tanner asks in shock.
With a laugh, Ivy says; "Not everyone, and certainly not at the same time. You should understand that there are over seven billion mobile devices in the world right now. And that doesn't include standard home and business computers."
"Which is why we don't catch every bad thing before it happens." Jennifer says; "It's just not possible, even if I had an army of Ivy's. But we do catch some things that we can act on, so we do."
"You know, Director Samuels had a hunch you had a super-hacker." Tanner tells them; "I guess he was right, sort of. So do you eavesdrop on the CIA and SECTOR too?"
Grinning at him; Jennifer says; "No need. My security clearance gives me total access to pretty much any U.S. Government system. And our Communications Satellites don't cover the globe, yet. So Ivy mainly sticks to the super criminals and terrorist types here in the good ole U.S. of A."
"Honestly I work best if I have some sort of lead first." Ivy tells him; "You know, something I can start looking for. Otherwise it's kinda like playing the Lottery."
"We've gotten lucky a few times, and naturally as suspicious as Jack Samuels is, his mind is blowing things out of proportion." Jennifer says; "But we do have a system in place that no one else does."
"You know, I'm supposed to report all of this?" Tanner somberly tells them.
"I know." Jennifer assures him. "I thought about it, and decided I'd rather be as honest with you as I can, than have Jack send someone else digging for something that doesn't exist."