Jen wasn’t her friend. Jen was a plant.
“We know you’re watching, buffer_breaker. Stop digging.”
The screen flooded with data—server maps, IP addresses, facial recognition hits from her own building’s security cameras. She saw a flagged email from her boss: “Monitor Maya’s off-network activity.” She saw her roommate Jen’s phone pinging a content protection company’s server.
“They don’t want you to see the unedited world because an unedited world is uncontrollable,” he whispered. “I’m sending you the final version. It’s not a proxy unblocker. It’s a proxy revealer . It shows you who’s watching you .”