A final idea: Could the spaces be wrong? What if it was MegRcbb ? She said it aloud: "Meg-are-see-bee-bee." It sounded like a name. "Meg R. C. B. B."
She wrote it again: M E G — R C B B .
She typed it into a personnel database of the old institute: "Margaret R. Chen-Blackburn." There she was: Dr. Margaret R. Chen-Blackburn, lead researcher in nano-encryption. Died in 2009. Her lab nickname? "Meg RCBB" – her initials. Meg Rcbb.rar