Elias exhaled. He started the cloning process, watching the green bar slowly creep across the screen as his entire OS was copied onto a high-speed thumb drive. By 4:30 AM, it was done. He shut down the laptop, pocketed the USB drive, and finally slept.
Against every instinct he’d developed as an IT professional, Elias disabled his antivirus. "Just for a second," he whispered. "To let the keygen run." Elias exhaled
The clock on Elias’s desk ticked toward 3:00 AM. His laptop screen was the only light in the room, casting a clinical blue glow over empty coffee mugs. He was desperate. He needed a portable version of his enterprise workstation for a field contract starting at dawn, but his trial of had just expired. He shut down the laptop, pocketed the USB