5/28/21 Drabble: Internet Masters

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The best hackers travel the world without ever leaving their seats. They zoom along the information superhighway, unlocking every backdoor and treating every computer as their own personal playground. Gamers in Korea. Businessmen in Australia. Government officials in Canada. All of them are connected. All of them easy prey.

In the blink of an eye, a hacker can dance from one server to the next, knocking down firewalls and cracking encryptions as fluidly as they breath. It's complete access. Godlike omnipotence at the edge of their fingertips.

Until the power goes out, then they lost it all just as fast.

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