Page 33 - SurprisingTruthFinal
P. 33
Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 3:
Algorithms of Dissent
Henry didn't go back to the hospital. The man on
the plastic chair, the one with the shrapnel and the
honest eyes, was a witness, not a weapon. Witnesses
get silenced. Henry, the architect of silence, knew the
routine too well. He needed builders. He needed
people who weren't just angry at the lies, but who
understood the mechanics of the machine that told
them.
He started small. The official story about the train
crash and the power outage, the "single, non-systemic
electrical relay issue" and the "structural debris,” was a
joke so bad it was criminal. He knew where the real
data lived. Not the polished, public-facing server
rooms, but the dusty, hidden network logs deep inside
the city's municipal power grid. Accessing them wasn't
about hacking firewalls; it was about knowing the
33
