BEg2 chapter 14

[Mark Kohut]

I'll be looking for that in the text this careful Read.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 1:18 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> My suspicion grows that Traipse has been set up to handle some very dark
> material, let’s say detailed building plans of the WTC, the flight plans of
> certain airlines, you get my drift, or maybe just money transactions at the
> hidden state level, and Ice or his high level confederates want only one
> disposable person who might potentially provide access to that information.
> Perhaps they even know about Lester’s embezzling action at hwgaahwgh <
> http://hwgaahwgh.com/> so Traipse is bitterly paranoid because he knows
> he’s in a deadly trap. His death is not about money but what he knows at a
> minimum about where hwgaahwgh money was being diverted to, or what he may
> know about Ice’s encrypted dark web stuff . Was Boingeaux in on the
> embezzlement?
>
> Felix describes Ice - “Him( Ice) with his high-level connections. Instead
> here he is insecure,  anxious, angry, like some loan shark or pimp who’s
> just learned he can’t depend for help on the cops he’s paying off, or even
> on the higher levels he has to report to—no SEC to hear his sad complaint,
> no Fraud Unit, he’s alone.”
> With something else then in the next sentence, just about to drop, which
> is when Felix shows up, just short of suspicious, as if he and Lester might
> have their own nondisclosure arrangements.
>
> Maxine on Lester- He carries a furtive fantasizing gaze she’s seen too
> many times before, an awareness of living not only on borrowed money but on
> borrowed time also.
>
> Lester trusts Felix to have his back  but Maxine does not.
>
>  Maxine talinng to Felix-No. No, Lester, that’s not exactly it, is it.
> This is evasion she’s hearing, and not the tax kind either, more in the
> area of life-and-death. “There’s something you want to tell me,” gently,
> “but it’s worth your life if you do. Right?” He looks like a little kid
> who’s about to start crying.
>  “What else would it be? The money isn’t bad enough?”
> “In your case I think not.”
> “I’m sorry. We can’t go any further. It’s nothing personal.” “I’ll see
> what I can do about the money.”
>
> Felix referring to Gabriel Ice-  “Ever meet him?” She understands that
> this may’ve been the whole point. “We’ve talked on the phone. I got a sense
> that his time is precious to him.” “Come on, I’ll introduce you, we’ve been
> doing a little business together.”
> Of course you have, bitch.
> Felix and Ice seem buddy buddy but She never talks with Ice only listens
> to his domed server farms in the arctic schpiel.
>
> Airport chance meeting with Felix B- Haven’t seen you since the Geeks’
> Cotillion, recall you being into some deep discussion then with Gabriel
> Ice. Were you able to drum up any business?” “Maybe a little consulting
> work.” No shame. Felix is now an account payable of the guy who may have
> whacked his former partner. Maybe has been all along.
>
> Boingeaux—  A real company called Boingo provides TV to US military(
> interesting contract), and is wifi provider for airports and and a network
> of hotspots/servers.
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> > On Jan 15, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > HTML acronymized into He’s Taking More Lithium, so, inferentially, he’s
> > crazy.
> >
> > Traipse and Felix Boingeaux were hired as a team* to create Web pages
> > holding encrypted data and not findable by search engines - this could be
> > the deep web Hashslingrz financial info that Eric Outfield had found for
> > Maxine? Or something similar?
> > Or something even more shady?plans of
> >
> > It’s the encrypted data that he doesn’t know how to read.
> >
> > * Ice  didn’t want his in-house people knowing about it. These would
> > include the script kiddies he’d entrapped - so they might be able to read
> > more encryption than Traipse & Boingeaux & hence more risky.
> >
> > And/or he wanted to draw Traipse and Boingeaux into his web of intrigue
> by
> > employing them?
> >
> >
> > Allen Ruch wrote:
> >
> > [Personal Note: Lester says: “Old-school HTML pages, in this case
> > ‘He’s taking more Lithium,’ everything encrypted, nothin any of us
> > knew how to read.” I confess, this has me puzzled. Why the Lithium
> > comment? What didn’t Lester know how to read? Was that the Arabic
> > LEET?]
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