"Actually, I'd like to know more about Multigen—and I'll likely have more questions after I talk to the Code Assistant team. Can I pick a time on your calendar next week?" It was Friday.
-"Sure. Talk to you then—if we humans are still alive, right?" Jake said, hoping that a touch of humor would be found endearing—and only realizing in the moment after he said it what a terrible play it was; Chloë was likely to take it as mockery.
+"Sure. Talk to you then—if we humans are still alive, right?" Jake said, Jake said, hoping to add a touch of humor, and only realizing in the moment after he said it what a terrible play it was; Chloë was more likely to take it as mockery than find it endearing.
-"I hope so," she said solemnly, and the call ended.
+"I hope so," she said solemnly, and hung up.
_Shit!_ How could he have been so foolish? It had been a specialist's blindness. He worked on Multigen. He knew that Multigen logged requests, and that people on his team occasionally had reason to grep those logs. He didn't want anyone knowing what he was asking Multigen to do. So he had arranged for his requests to not appear in Multigen's logs, thinking that was enough—or rather, without thinking about whether or not that was enough.
It got worse. When the Multigen web interface supplied the user's requested media, that data had to live somewhere. The _videos themselves_ would still be on Magma's object storage cluster! How could that have seemed like an acceptable risk? Jake struggled to recall what he had been thinking at the time. Had he been too horny to even consider it?
-No. It had seemed safe at the time because videos weren't greppable. They would be saved in object storage under uninformative file names based on the timestamp and a random UUID.
+No. It had seemed safe at the time because videos weren't greppable. They would be saved in object storage under uninformative file names based on the timestamp and a random UUID. The probability of someone snooping around the raw object files and just happening to watch the videos had seemed sufficiently low as to be worth the risk. (Although, _ex ante_, he would have assigned a similarly low probability to someone catching a discrepancy between Multigen's logs and some other unanticipated log, which had just happened, suggesting that his personal sense of what was probable was miscalibrated.)
+
+But now that Chloë was investigating the bell character bug, it was only a matter of time.
[TODO—
* Jake is very nervous; he thought deleting the Multigen logs would be enough (the videos are also stored in object storage, but there's no particular reason to expect a human to be combing through the raw files ... but they will, if there's an investigation
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