‘What more do we know?’ the man asked, his eyes closed. ‘We are no closer, sir. We have been investigating the network. It is turning up nothing. The fault . . . it is not there sir.’ ‘Not there?’ ‘There is no log of the event on the network. There might be a malfunction. But personally, I believe it has been deleted.’ ‘Then there is a culprit.’ ‘I think so sir. But without a record we cannot localise it to a particular machine. Not only do we not know where the event transpired, but we do not know when. I mean, in which time window occurred the hacking of the machine, if that is how it
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