the obsidian proxy
It was military-grade, designed for extreme data integrity and resilience, entirely separate from the Thorne Corp network.
Julian stared at the drive, a new wave of nausea washing over him. Was this the siphon? The stolen, priceless data he had intended to sell to The Syndicate?
He immediately took the SSD to his isolated analysis terminal—the one completely disconnected from the corporate network and his current security team. He connected it and ran a deep-level forensic scan. The drive contained no malware, no Trojan horses, and no external tracking protocols. It was a simple, highly encrypted storage device.
The encryption was multi-layered, proprietary, and complex. Julian spent twenty