You notice it during a routine security audit. A ghost in the system, moving through your client's private network with impossible grace. No alerts triggered. No defenses breached. Because they weren't broken - they were... choreographed around.
Access Log Analysis:
Timestamps: Normal
Authentication: Valid
Pattern: [ERROR - No pattern detected]
That's what catches your eye. There's always a pattern. Human behavior is patterns. AI behavior is definitely patterns. But this... this is anti-pattern. Someone deliberately avoiding creating patterns while moving through the most secure digital spaces in the world.
You trace the activity through encrypted channels, private servers, ghost nodes. They've been here for months, touching everything but taking nothing. Like a digital ghost, haunting the ultra-wealthy's most private spaces.
The message appears on your secure terminal at 3 AM. You freeze. You've been backtracing for hours, following their trail through the digital labyrinth. But they've been watching you watch them.
Another message blinks: "You're the first person who's noticed. The first one who understood the art of it. Would you like to know what I've seen?"
You should disconnect. Should trigger protocols. Should do anything except what you're about to do, which is type back:
"Show me."