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“Are you busy? I really need to talk to someone. Get another perspective.”
“No, I’m not busy. How can I help, Babe?”
“The company we had lined up to bundle our software with their camera sales backed out of the deal. They admitted my uncle asked them to. In the long run, this deal falling through would hurt Carlucci’s. Not just me or the project. My uncle has always done what he thought was best for the company. It’s been profitable with him as the CEO. Ellen and I are both stumped as to why he would go to these lengths to keep me from having control. It just doesn’t make sense.”
“Unless there’s another reason why your uncle doesn’t want to lose control of Carlucci’s.”
“What other reason could there be?”
“I don’t know, Val. You know, Carson was approached once about getting kickbacks if he recommended one vendor over another. Are there any, I don’t know, suppliers that your uncle recommends that might be lining his pockets?”
“Not that I know of. But... um... Let me do some digging. Thanks, Chase.”
I look over at Ellen. “Do you think that might be what my uncle is doing? Who could we bring in on this?”
We both look at each other...
“Dave!”
“Well, what do you think?" I ask Dave, "Do you think you could hack his computer or email and see what he’s up to, possibly trying to hide?”
“Hack? Maybe, but let’s just try to guess his password. Sometimes that’s easier,” Dave states with a shrug.
“Easier? Are you kidding?”
“No, let’s just try. What is your uncle passionate about? A sports team, Movie, Game?”
“He loves football. The Jaguars.”
“Okay, any other hobbies?”
“He plays golf.”
“What’s his age? Any pets? I know his daughter’s name. Wife’s name is Gloria?”
“What’s Cristina’s birthday? His birthday? His wife’s birthday?”
“Favorite color?”
“Green,” he types in all the answers I gave him to his many questions.
“Okay, let me run this code I’ve been playing with. It will give us all the options and then we can narrow it down to the most common ones.”
“You have software that will do that?”
“Yeah, doesn’t everyone?”
“No,” both Ellen and I answer him.
“Okay, it just generated a list. Here are the top twenty. You look over the list and see if any of these resonate with you. Maybe you saw one of his old passwords, and it could be in the same format. You know a word, then a number. That kind of thing?”
I take the list and look it over.
“Couldn’t we just try the passwords on this list?”
“There’s a lockout policy in place; you’ll be locked out after three bad attempts. The lock does fall off after fifteen minutes, but waiting would be a very long time.”
“Of course.”
