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another. They also weren't
sure who to trust, so after some ruminations, they decided to go to the top and
to hell with the rest. They brought with them a security camera, Everett laid
it out on the desk.
    “See, we were confused by how Willis had
gotten past security. John pointed out a few things, but not a whole hell of a
lot. We made a lot of assumptions and then just dropped it, after all, the
bitch was dead,” Bailey said.
    “But this says differently?” Horatio
asked, pointing to the camera. Everett nodded.
    “Yes, see, the Chief had found a few
things but NCIS and ONI had bagged it all. But well, I was curious, so I went
hunting myself.”
    “He poked around my systems, which
alerted me. I was about to snap his head off when he pointed out his poking
around had found something of interest,” Chief Chambers grunted, arms crossed.
“Which is why he's here and not in my brig.”
    Everett flushed. “I admit, I had done
some poking around before hand, I had hacked the woman's tablet and cloned it's
hard drive.” He pulled out a flash stick and tablet. He put the chip in the
tablet and then tapped at it. When he had what he wanted to show he turned it
to let the naval officer see.
    “I see.”
    “I didn't find anything, at least not
when I first looked at it.” But then I ran a search on it and found a read me
file tucked away in an odd folder. It was strange, embedded like that, where no
one could find it.”
    “You don't do that with a read me file,”
Horatio said nodding. “Usually you leave them out where people can find them,
that's the whole point.”
    “Yes sir. I read it and up until a day
ago I had been even more confused. It was an explanation on playing with the
cameras but it was coded. It took me a while to break it.”
    “You broke the code?” Horatio asked,
raising an eyebrow.”
    “He apparently used a lot of Destiny's surplus
computing power to do it,” Bailey said dryly. “Which is where I came into the
story, when ops found someone running a lot of stuff in engineering they called
me.”
    “Ah.”
    “When he got into the file he showed it
to me. It is directions on how to access a little known circuit in these
things,” Bailey said, reaching out to tap the camera. “Something built into
them. A tiny board that lets someone else control them remotely. And since
we're a naval reserve vessel and these are navy issue...”
    Logan grunted as if he'd been punched in
the stomach. He picked up on it for what it was right away. “Just a minute,” he
said, holding up  a finger. Grimly he used his implants to call in NCIS,
Security, and ONI. Lieutenant JG Irene Teague of ONI domestic showed up within
minutes, special NCIS agent Frank Sekim a few minutes after that. Once
representatives of each investigator department arrived Horatio also called in
any AI in range. He had the Destiny group lay it out to the newly arrived
personnel and to the AI attending. The story sobered all of them.
    “What this means is a group of unknown
individuals put these in the cameras to override them. They did this in the
docks.”
    “Shit,” the intel officer said and swore
softly. He was now so pale he was almost translucent. “They were purpose built
from the beginning... that means someone in fabrication and installation...”
    Horatio's eyes cut to him and then back
to the group in general. “Exactly. We've got a massive security and
intelligence breach here people. There is more than one individual involved,
that's for sure. This has been well planned and executed. We need to see how
wide spread this is. Get a team on Destiny, lock down her communications, lock
down the crew and then take her security system apart. Destiny is a naval
reserve vessel so it's our jurisdiction. Find out how far this goes. I don't
care how.”
    “Sir, what about leaving it in place and
using it to track anyone using it?” the intel officer suggested and then looked
at the civilians in their midst. All of the civilians