He hit enter. Then, before the system could process the refusal, he typed another command, bypassing the software interface and going straight to the kernel level.
Unexpected outbound connections from an internal server to an external IP on port 9998, or an inbound listening socket on a workstation (not a server) on 9998. tcp port 9998
The connection was severed. The door was slammed shut. Port 9998 was no longer listening. It was just another closed port in a world of sixty-five thousand possibilities. He hit enter
Elias pulled up a packet sniffer. He needed to see what was being whispered through that doorway. The connection was severed
Elias stared at the prompt. A purge. It would wipe the drives. It would erase the secrets, and likely his career along with them. But if he said 'N', whoever was on the other end of that connection—the one sending the handshake through the dark—would know he was there.
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9998 -j DROP
He typed: LIST CARGO.
