He’d been with the FBI for almost ten years, climbing his way up the bureaucratic ladder, and now worked in a vital section of the organization. His job was mainly to scour the Internet and keep tabs on certain terrorist cells. Ever since its conception the Internet had been a major threat not only to the security of the United States but to the entire world. Anybody was free to post whatever they wished, just as anybody was free to access it. It was then Carver’s job to ensure that when something was posted that sent up red flags, they not only kept an eye on it and whoever was accessing the material, but found out who those people were and shut it down. His bad luck started one night as he sat in front of a half dozen computers programmed to access any number of URLs at any given time. Something strange had popped up on Carver’s screen. The computer he was using ran through a series of letters and numbers to see if anything came up, as sometimes terrorists will use addresses that are complete gibberish but which their contacts will know and link to and then read whatever message is posted before that message is deleted. What he was looking at now was mostly a black screen with a box in the middle.
