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Ten Minutes
The laptop works for ten glorious minutes first thing. Then the Bank locks it out of the network. Momentum: cancelled.

The laptop works for ten glorious minutes first thing. Then the Bank locks it out of the network. Momentum: cancelled.

The verdict: no data-loss protection, no anti-malware. His daily driver, formally certified feral.

No network means no work. He becomes tremendously available for the group chat. The chat did not ask.

A colleague asks, sincerely, whether he is on a line. Of all the questions, in all the corridors.

The official explanation. The bag stays out of frame. Mostly.