In this short story a fifty year old hacker finds out exactly how credit cards were developed as the human race began trading between tribes after they left their cave dwellings and started running around. This tells about what was discovered by the gray headed old man.

   Grand Father Hacking Skills

That family wide alarm made me dig out some of my retired programming skills and try to finally find out who was ripping us off so easily. It wasn’t very difficult to drag out my old Turbo C++ compiler and think back to the type of security threats I had written shields against just a few years ago. I could even remember several tales about successful hackers and how one had to act to protec6t their password.

With those skills it was an easy task to hack into my son’s credit card company main frame. I only had to write a password guessing program that could look into any individual background and come up with a series of probable passwords. That bit of software was easy to get away with when it was linked with the late payment checker because the interest rate hiking software took up so much room in execution it covered my password finder. Shouldn’t the old programming languages still work fine?

   Grand Father Hacking Lead

That whole endeavor let me find out that the credit card company main frame was controlled by a larger one that resembled one that had been used by the Federal government during our cold war against Russia. It was easily recognizable to me because during that first Gulf War I had served on active duty in the Marine Corps. My radio operator Military occupational specialty had given me a secret security clearance. Back then some of us had to be trained that fiercely so the people we were in combat with couldn’t easily understand any of the codes used and kill a bunch of us.

Initially I couldn’t help guessing the computer over seas was probably controlled by one of those countries in the Middle East that wanted to do something like send us a suicide nuclear bomber. My radio operator background allowed me to get into one of our national security main frames in Virginia and have it trace down the radio broadcasts. It directed me into the one used by our outer space rocket launcher in Florida. Shouldn’t your computer help keep you alive?

   Grand Father Hacker Reaction

I’ll never forget how our whole family panicked and ran into our garage when the monitor screen displayed the actual broadcast location which appeared from the dark side of the moon. With all the incoming facts the tiny bit of software I had initially written proclaimed that the credit card company control was broadcast from an alien space craft hidden over there. When the software evaluated all the incoming data to act like it had been written for the monitor displayed a skinless skull bone and the speakers barked out, “Limited gravity means low interest rates. Loans against your planet can easily be paid while in orbit.”

   Hacker Credit Discovery

I couldn’t help using my son’s lap top computer to try and discover if any thing was attacking us. My C++ hacher program automatically dug in deeper. At that point a major discovery was made. The reason it had started out warning us about the middle east was because credit cards had originated there over two thousand years ago. The lap top screen displayed some dates and locations that let me understand how Rome had used credit card swords to try eliminating the world of Jews. That demonic plan would have eliminated man kind if everyone had fallen for it. Who can tell if credit cards are good for mankind or not?

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