A useful set of hands (Tony-Kirby)
Kirbys heals could be heard down the hall as she fast approached LabTwo. Her feelings were, at the moment, a bit mixed. She was happy that Stark had agreed to come look at a project she had her stumped for quite some time. She was miffed because he didn’t contact her before coming in.
Waving her card, the door flew open and she scowled at the lab techs surrounding him. They looked like starstruck teenagers instead of the intelligent adults they were supposed to be.
"Everyone except Mr stark needs to find a project outside this room." Her eyes swept over them so she could make the eye contact needed to show she wasn’t joking. "Now." She calmly commanded.
Once they were alone Kirby turned her eyes, softening them a bit, to Stark.
"Good afternoon Mr Stark. Sorry about the techs, if you had phoned ahead I could have cleared the room before hand."
“And what fun would that be?” He asks, walking around the room now that mostly all of the people were gone and he could see every monitor that has been left on.
He likes it when SHIELD’s technicians adore him and don’t loathe his very existence. Either out of spite or personal experience.
“That would have just ruined the surprise.” He’s sure at least five of those are currently chatting excitingly instead of working somewhere else, like she told him.
He walks up to one of the touch screens and grabs the handle to pull it down to him from where it had been raised to be seen from every workstation. He had wondered if they kept the Carrier technology strictly on board. Either these scientists are special, or Fury only equips the best.
He starts poking into what he can access without bypassing any firewalls. He has no clue what this one even wants from him, but he’d like to get it over as quick as possible.
“So, what do you need my help with?”
Walking over to one of the open desktops she begins the lock down procedures to keep the information secure. That Tech will need to come find her later to get the computer and files unlocked. He can explain then why he left sensitive information up while he wasn’t at his station.
Glancing up she couldn’t help but smile at what Stark was doing. Her systems were for the most part secure. What she knew SHIELD didn’t want him to see was on paper, either in her office or on a different floor.
So seeing the genius at work was more fun than anything. If he got into anything too classified she would just throw the lab on shut down.
"The engines on the quinjets are just too unreliable in a fight. Sadly, we are running into some road blocks in the new design. I would like for you to take a look at them and hopefully spot what ever everyone else is missing."
Pulling the project up on her tablet she took her eyes off him for a moment. By the time she looked back up He was through the third security wall of a file. What she should do is get him away from the computer. But then he would probably wonder whats in the file and she would get a smaller percentage of his attention.
So putting on the friendliest smile she could she moved to stand next to him. “The key is Pandora. Make sure the o is a zero and please don’t copy any of the files. I don’t feel like getting that stack of paperwork on my desk today.”
“Seriously?” He asks and when he gets a nod in answer, he feels a little cheated. He had hoped to crack the password after a healthy one-on-one with the various firewalls. Instead it was this cheap word with the O exchanged for a zero.
“Not even an Email provider would let you register with that password.” He says and throws the touch screen a dirty look, as if offended.
Well, since it both contains a capital letter and a number they might but his fact still stands. It was an unsafe password. Especially to him who rotated his access codes weekly and they were never less than 12 digits.
Laughing at his reaction she made a few taps on the screen. Setting what he was looking at on one side so that she could fit her project on the other.
"That's the beauty of that password. This isn't too dangerous a file to get leaked but all the same it needed a password. Most hackers that try and take us on will be expecting something much more than that simple phrase. So its a bit of a way to stall while we have someone tracing their location."
Stark was right, the password was pitiful. Sadly though even as head of the department if she was over ruled on a subject then she had to obey.
"If you think that's bad you should see what some of the techs security passwords are. You would probably fire most of them just for how asinine the passwords are." God only knows she wanted too half the time.
