"Halo" - читать интересную книгу автора (Maddox Tom)

work stations, embedded oblongs of glass, lay dark and silent in

front of them.

 

Gonzales had come to Myanmar to do an information audit. The

local SenTrax group supplied the Federated State of Myanmar with

its primary information utilities: all its records of personnel

and materiel, and all transactions among them. A month earlier,

SenTrax Myanmar's reports had triggered "look-see" alarms in the

home company's passive auditing programs, and Gonzales and his

memex had been sent to look more closely at the raw data.

 

So for twenty straight days Gonzales and the memex had

explored data structures and their contents, testing nominal

functional relationships against reality. Wherever there were

movements of information, money, equipment or personnel, there

were records, and the two followed. They searched cash trails,

matched purchase orders to services and materiel, verified voucher

signatures with personnel records, cross-checked the personnel

records themselves against government databases, and traced the

backgrounds and movements of the people they represented; they

read contracts and back-chased to their bid and acquisition; they

verified daily transaction logs.

 

Hard, slogging work, all patience and detail, and so far it

had shown nothing but the usual inefficienciesGrossback didn't