I yanked the ethernet cable. Too late. A final line appeared:
LICENSE STATUS: ACTIVE | USER: ADMIN_SHDW | MODE: INVISIBLE
At 3:17 AM, the monitor flagged something it shouldn't have. Not a slacking employee. A ghost process. A hidden directory named .cache_8.9.4 that didn't exist at install. Inside, a single log file repeated: Key mismatch. User override.
They weren't selling employee surveillance. They were selling access to the surveillors themselves.
