"I have a legal team for that."

"Mr. Thorne," she said, her voice stern but quiet. "The court recognizes that you were right. But this trial happened because the gap between your technical reality and the legal framework was too wide. Next time, ensure your 'scope' is signed in blood, not just ink. You are a professional, but the world is run by amateurs. Be careful."

"Mr. Halloway, this is a vulnerability audit from your own team. It warned you that the transaction log had a memory leak. If more than five hundred requests came in simultaneously without a specific patch, the system would hard-lock. Did you apply the patch?"