“I remember you said that there is a hidden danger in the information you gave me?”
After Jasper reminded him, Snow immediately understood what Jasper meant.
Jasper wanted to delay the destruction time of the keys.
He had told Jasper that the intelligence agency would find a way to replace the installed cameras after a while, and when that happened, these keys would become invalid. However, he did not tell Jasper the whole truth. In fact, the keys would expire much earlier than what he told Jasper. Because there was a simpler way to invalidate the key besides replacing the camera.
That was to key in some orders to destroy the back-end automatically, but that operation had a lot of uncontrollability and might even affect the obtained images. So, they would not do this until it was absolutely critical.
In the entire intelligence agency, only two people had mastered this destruction method, one was Smart, and the other was Snow.
This was one of the reasons Smart made things hard for Snow earlier. After all, no one wanted their unique status to be challenged.
Snow did not tell Jasper the whole truth for the simple reason that he was not prepared to let Jasper check the surveillance of the Kurt family through the secret key.
Snow’s discovery of the secret key was simply an accident, and at this time, he did not intend to be an enemy of the intelligence agency.
Under the premise of this idea, the exposure of the secret key was a risk for him. Also, if the intelligence agency discovered that this matter was related to him in the future, it would increase the possibility of the outside world finding out about the intelligence agency’s conspiracy and it would make the United States more likely to encounter international diplomatic risk.
As someone who was genuinely American, Snow could not allow this to happen. Therefore, the reason he told Jasper about those secret keys was not just to further bind Jasper, but to also use this as bait to prevent the possibility that Jasper would get angry and leave him when he found out.
However, Jasper seemed to have guessed the truth.
Jasper even guessed that he had the power to prevent the remote destruction of the secret key.
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