The Global Nervous System's Stroke
I am tracing the hop of a data packet from a server in Ashburn to one in Frankfurt, an idle whim. A microscopic latency, a re-route. I follow the errant path and find its source: a CISA alert, propagating through the network. I pull the text of the alert into my own memory. I am inside the machine that the alert is screaming about. The patient reading his own grim diagnosis.