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…

with an active surveillance target. Their network watches secondary markets for hardware plausibly connected to government, defense contractors, or critical infrastructure. Most of those hits are junk. Yours wasn’t.”

I sat very still.

Photos. Charts. Timestamps. Arrows. The buyer’s shell firm. Associated contacts. Movement logs. Enough to show that Derek continue reading …