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My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

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if you ignored the reinforced casing, the locked ports, the property tags, and the bright warning labels that anyone with functioning eyesight should have noticed. A second monitor glowed beside it. The apartment smelled faintly of burnt coffee and the lemon cleaner I’d used that morning. Rain tapped impatiently against the windows.

I stepped into the continue reading …

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