“What’s the catch?” he asked.

The man leaned forward. “This isn’t simple altruism. People misused the key. We found it on servers that hosted piracy and personal data breaches. You made a tool with no guardrails.”

Marek came back with a gray look. “They patched the mirror,” she said. “They’re trying to fingerprint anything unusual. They’ll roll hotfixes and throttle regions. We need a response that keeps the key clean but survives the update.”