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You make a manic flight over rooftops and alleyways, keeping an eye out for flying security instances or patrolling Cargodramon. You do actually hear one high overhead at one point, and your nerves cause you to burn an Optical Camouflage use immediately. It doesn't even pause, moving in a straight line to the far West of the City on some unrelated mission.
<span class="mu-s">"Damn it! What's the plan now?"</span>
"I don't know. I'm not sure how strong their tracking is. We weren't in a partition like Lenny, they don't have us yet, right?"
<span class="mu-s">"They shouldn't!"</span>
You look through the messages, rapidly scrolling back down their length and following the instructions your allies have provided.
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W: Don't come back yet. Cc sending checklist.
W: Do NOT use sewers.
W: Network ideal if d is recovered, can come immediately if you use it.
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The checklist in question is complex, covering several scenarios and potential levels of surveillance they've placed on you. The first is that public services will be reporting your presence immediately if you use them. You need to always have a spoofer up, Squid commands. And you shouldn't let bots see your face.
The final important aspect is that they've gained access to your movement history. It's not humanly possible to have the encryption suite active at all times. There are brief, maybe only seconds-long intervals where it lapses throughout the day, causing you to clearly appear as 'Marnie' to their passive human location indicators. This was the exact same principle that limited VPN usage in partitions to a handful of hours.
These short snapshots paint a picture of you in various places around the City, even if it's just a tiny flash. You specifically recall your VPN expiring for two minutes while you were in the punk district this morning, possibly marking it as a location of interest. From there, they can use an algorithm to predict your daily routine.
