99: A nationwide live broadcast (Taking tomorrow off; there are too many scenes coming up, so I need to refine the detailed outline)
Tim felt immense pressure.
Just five minutes earlier, with help from his hacker friends, he had breached a television network and a video website.
And today happened to be Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A live commemorative event hosted by CBS was underway in Washington's West Potomac Park.
This was a nationwide broadcast. Intent on making the biggest splash possible, Tim, who had originally only planned to hack Gotham's broadcasting company, changed his plan after discussing it with Barbara and prepared to hijack the live signal.
Meanwhile, he selected an outdoor vlogger with thirty million subscribers and successfully hijacked the signal source.
The price was a sharp increase in pressure.
The instant he connected to CBS's signal, a torrent of counterattack programs slammed into the firewall Tim had set up. A tiny fraction of these defensive programs were Trojans; most were junk programs containing redundant information, capable of attacking the firewall tens of millions of times per second.
An ordinary hacker could never withstand attacks this frequent. Even with a custom firewall intercepting them, the overload alone would be enough to crash the software instantly.
Fortunately, Lucius had helped install a miniature supercomputer beforehand. Though the rushed schedule and shortage of materials meant its performance could not compare with a real supercomputer, it could just barely withstand the flood of data.
Running at full capacity, the computer roared. Tim could even see the liquid coolant flowing out of its casing boiling inside the translucent pipes.
This young computer was enduring pressure no computer its age should have had to bear.
Before Tim could reinforce the firewall, the video website launched its counterattack too. Unlike the broadcasting company's flood of data, what came after Tim this time were the website's top security specialists, dozens of them at once.
Tim had originally