Joseph returned to his office after speaking with the Lieutenant Governor, he’d meet with Pangolin later to inform him of the conversation, he hadn’t written anything down as of course he didn’t need to. He sat down behind his large desk and opened a drawer, grabbing a fresh PaDD that hadn’t been networked yet, using air-gapped technology when working with intelligence was in his opinion necessary. He paired the PaDD with the data disk Reilly had given him earlier that day and waited for the system to decrypt using the standard police decryption key, he was assuming that would be enough for something handed directly to him. If not he wondered if he could brute-force it using Karlson patented tech.

Commissioner Karlson