In the darkness of her room, the webcam light stayed on.
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And somewhere on a server in a country with no extradition treaty, her grandmother’s birthday video played on a loop—next to thousands of other "converted" files, each one tagged with a sleeping face, a password, or a whispered secret. In the darkness of her room, the webcam light stayed on
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