Chapter 365

After the initial congratulatory handshakes, with everyone that was anyone, Jim set up a table where Patricia could meet with donors, who knew about her expertise in computers. Through their contacts around the world, they had also gleaned information about the two computers she destroyed, without anyone physically being in the room with them. They wanted to be in on the ground floor of that technology.

Bill and Melinda were the first people to speak with her. She told them her program was not like 'Stuxnet', which only infected a computer's logic software.

Patricia explained that the technology was so secret only the president and three other people knew of its existence, and only she knew the codes that made it work. She said, "The president had not made a decision, yet, on whether to allow her to patent the technology. It was so revolutionary; it could destabilize the entire world."

When she said those words to many of the people she spo