Pretty sure Adira is or was a Zhupao employee

Discussion 2049/10/03
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This is the only thing that makes sense.

  • G6 was launched sometimes in 2040, depending on what you count as a “launch”.
  • G6 has been tracking Adira since 2041.
  • G6 says that Adira has “unfettered” access to G6’s network.
  • Zhupao provided “IT infrasctructure and colloid designs” necessary for G6.
  • Omnia was created in 2041, and specifically provides network access to users.

It is way more likely to me that a Zhupao employee managed to install some sort of backdoor for themselves while the company was designing G6 or when Omnia rolled out compared to the alternative - that a hacker or collective managed to get into what has to be one of the most secure network on the planet in less than a year.

I kinda feel dumb for not noticing earlier, I connected the strings while playing around with the pipeline thingy. Connected the pipes I guess.

But yeah, if they worked on G6 then both their access and capacity to acquire that are plausible. Given that the attack on Xu was done through Omnius, Adira being a suspect makes sense - the only alternatives are that someone else hacked into Omnius, or that an(other ?) Omnius employee did it.

So the next question is : if they are or were an employee, how in all the hecks hasn’t G6 caught them yet ? You’d think checking the people who worked on the project would be the first thing they did. That’s why they held Hong Lian, right ? So presumbably Adira bailed before they got caught.

So what I’m saying is that @caleb was right all along and that Amankwah-Crouse is extremely suspect. Any other Zhupao employees we might want to keep an eye on ?

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Now that we know Omnius was formed through a merger, I’ve got Apprise (acquired 2026) on my radar.

  • Zhupao’s initial venture in AI & deep learning
  • Apprise staff were around well before Zhupao got into colloids/PACOTTI
  • So they were in a position to
    • feel like biosurveillance work was not what they signed up for
    • Trojan Horse their way into the G6 network as long-time Zhupao employees
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More tenuous/fanciful, but what in the HECK with Pokrov’s co-founder as an early investor in PenCreant, which ends up getting folded in Omnius?! Like, realistically this is probably staff doing custom fabrication for on-site hardware installations, but the indirect tie to the countersurveillance specialists with a wink-wink reputation for back doors…

This paved the way for an initial public offering (IPO) on October 25th 2035, which was subject to concerns that Pokrov would be unable to expand into major Western markets if it refused to provide backdoor access for local law enforcement agencies, a move that Golitsyn had publicly ruled out. Despite these concerns, Pokrov would eventually become one of Russia’s largest IPOs of the 2030s, with a valuation of ¥5.5 billion.