"As long as I plug this into a senior executive's computer, I can gradually gather intelligence."
Pepper Potts held an ordinary-looking hard drive. Its exterior was utterly unremarkable, but inside was spoofing software developed by Tony Stark that could fool artificial intelligence detection. It could even fool JARVIS perfectly.
Stark Industries had been making major moves lately, repeatedly injecting capital and expanding. Even if it wanted to expand weapons production, doing so before it had that many orders was simply a money-losing proposition.
But this was highly classified even within Stark Industries. As merely a board member, Tony Stark could find out nothing at all. He could only use this method to investigate Stark Industries' weapons division.
After all, Stark Industries still bore his name. Tony Stark did not want another mix-up, with more superpowered people coming after him over Stark Industries' weapons.
Pepper Potts chose a time when Obadiah was away, and stayed until after work. Before this, she had already tested the hard drive on her own computer. Unfortunately, her computer was not connected to the company's network, making it no different from accessing the internet at home.
This also proved that Stark Industries was indeed guarding against her. Otherwise, how could a board member's assistant not even have access to the company's internal network? She had less access than a department manager.
The chairman's office had once been a place Tony Stark and Pepper Potts often visited, but after being renovated, it had become Kane Penter's office. However, he had only visited once. After that, no one in the entire company had seen the mysterious owner of the Pent Group again.
After unlocking the office with a specially made magnetic card, Pepper Potts walked straight in, carefully closed the door behind her, then went to the computer,