Micro Monday - August 5th, 2024

Data Harvest

Data Harvest

ERR 954: (Emergency) I AM BEING EATEN BY ANTS

Andrea stared at her terminal. 9XX codes allowed arbitrary text, but they weren’t usually this dramatic.

[andrea@site7]> diag —interactive —priority=“emerg”
Entering interactive mode…

HELP

andrea@site7: ants? do you mean bugs?

ANTS CHEWING THE WIRES

Shit. Site 7 was the cryptographic hub of the network. Its “wires” collected random metadata throughout the jungle, which fed the hash algorithms they used to encrypt data.

No wires, no encryption.

Andrea opened her messaging app. This was above her. Ravenous jungle ants were NOT her problem to deal with.

The ants outside her tent disagreed.

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