“You look remarkably calm for someone whose main project was just shut down by the city,” Julian said.

“I am calm because Adrian was sloppy,” I said.

I pointed to the lines of code on my tablet screen.

“Look at the routing sequence,” I said. “The user bypassed our server security by using an obsolete secondary port we established when we were still partners.”

“The port was never closed?” Julian asked.

“I closed it on my end when I left Boston,” I said. “But the administrative token Adrian used was hardcoded into the initial server software we bought five years ago.”

“He used his own personal administrative key,” Julian repeated, studying the screen. “The token registered to his office desktop in Boston.”

“Yes,” I said. “He didn’t realize that when I split our corporate digital assets, I archived the master security registry on my private drive.”

I tapped a command, pulling up a secondary window showing the active system logs.

“Every time that key is used, it pings the licensing server,” I explained. “It recorded his IP address, his machine name, and the specific MAC address of his office computer.”