As the progress bars turned a steady, comforting green, Elias leaned back, the blue light of the monitor reflecting in his tired eyes. The "Pro" features were already shaving hours off the estimate. By the time the city woke up, the data would be home, and Elias would be a ghost once again.
With a soft ping , the zip file landed in his downloads. Elias didn't just open it; he ran a checksum verify and a sandbox scan. In his world, haste without caution was a death sentence. The green checkmark appeared. Clean.
He typed a specific string into his encrypted browser: