Your career as a hacker brings you more and more unreasonable tasks. Today you arrive at the ferry station, head to your next gate (no one mentioned if you even got an ice cream), and figure out where to seat. Even though you are the first person in the waiting area that does not stop you from knowing the seating habits for all other passengers, and calculate their seating patterns.
After you finished hacking the plane, your laptop dies: you forgot to charge it! Rookie mistake, or the calculations do consume a lot of power. The plane has a power outlet, but somehow it’s a non-standard one, you need an adapter. But first a cocktail! Then you empty your backback on the seat next to you and find out that you have dozens of different adapters, which you can stack together. None of them really work, and hopefully you don’t blow another fuse, or set the plane on fire!
Uh oh, either the ice cream at the airport was bad, or the cocktails are not good for you! How else can you explain that you hack the airplane systems with some paperclips and break the XMAS encryption, while the plane is airborne? The plane’s on-board systems emits some cryptic numbers and your task is it to decrypt this. Wait, did I say task? Who gave this task to you? Oh well, please be careful, if you shorten a circuit you might as well crash your own plane.
You fixed the colours of the bags yesterday and security allowed you to leave the baggage section and go get your ice cream before you board your next flight. On the flight the kid next to you recognizes you as the great hacker you are, and asks you to fix a problem with the handheld game console. Go and hack the bootloader while no documentation is available because the mobile internet is off. Turns out someone coded an infinite loop into the bootloader, and missed that fact during testing. What testing, do you ask? Well, let’s not jump too deep into details, you have to hack a bootloader and make a kid happy. It’s Christmas soon, after all! And your cocktail is waiting!
They really trust you a lot … Now all flights are delayed, that’s quite usual in advent times. Except it’s 2020 and no one is traveling anyway. But they also impose more regulations, and now bags need to have colours, and bags need to go into other bags. And someone has to figure it out. That’s right, it’s you! I hope the stopover is long enough to at least grab some ice cream!