‘Why does it have to be discovered at all?’
‘Because I can’t cover our entire security organization. We have teams of engineers scanning the system’s integrity. I’ll be lucky to survive a week before the attack’s discovered. And then the other executives will call for my head.’
‘Ah.’ Leo sounded unconcerned.
She pressed the nib of her pen against her notebook. ‘So I’m just to be sacrificed?’
‘You will survive. It is expected that occasionally you may take hits to your persona.’
Julia didn’t like this at all. For weeks she’d been transferring server data – the most recent being all searches originating from Sydney during a twelve-hour period. She followed the standard process each time, signing in with her User 555 credentials, messaging a FreeTalk account she knew only as HELPER once
