When you wanted to warn the world media that all phones, all holos, all netfriends were being monitored by WorldCom, it was really quite difficult to use an untapped communications device to tell them. Leaking 101: Don't use your work email or work phone to say something bad about your work. When your work happened to own all the communication devices around, and you're leaking to warn them that they're monitoring everything, for financial gain (they never picked the wrong stock), for the news channel, for the political donations--so they always, but always, bet on the right horse to win, even when there was another clear favorite--well, then it gets complicated.


Inspiration: BoingBoing article on how to blow the whistle: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/16/how-to-blow-the-whistle.html
Story Potential: Medium.
Notes: Setting. Not personal enough. Could do a Grisham with it, though.

The mobile search activated as soon as she realized that he hadn't just left her; he'd taken her research with him. That research was something he wasn't even supposed to know about, and realizing that he did made her wonder what else he knew that he wasn't supposed to--and what she didn't know that she ought to have. Because her prototype was working already, she found him within 30 seconds--about four hundred feet higher in the air than her research showed anything being. It scared her, a little. Was the opposition good enough, far enough ahead of them that that was even possible? Was there another group involved that she didn't know the existence of? What was going on? Maybe there was a flaw in her calculations, and the y axis--

Inspiration: An article about a mobile phone search.
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Ugh. What a clunky mess.