Note 2.8

Sender: Kelly Anders Recipient: Moss Key Fingerprint: {Missing}, passed authenticity checks.

Hey Moss, how have you been? I thought I'd send this log over, since we finally managed to hook you up to our network. We have been tracing your friends and parent in Ruine. Our spies sent a report back, and they seem to be about as well as they can in that place. We managed to get them removed from any experiment lists they were on, and hide them from the scientist-facing system. This should keep them safe for a while, we hope. We talked about going deeper into Ruine's systems a while ago, and the hill hall meeting concluded it makes sense. I was poking their communications for a bit, and found something extremely interesting: A system all communications and documents go through. It's called the hypervisor internally. It caught my attention while I was sifting through one of the compromised systems owned by low level operators. It was mentioned in a heavily redacted document about some kind of procedure, like this:

HYPERVISOR NOTICE!

• this document was flagged by the Ruine safety watch.
• ACTIONS:
  • Information inappropriate for lower levels has been expunged.
  • This incident WILL be reviewed!
  • If you are a Level {NaN} and above, please consult the Safety Sector for access to the original.
  • Last reminder: Innapropriate handling of documents may lead to being relabelled as 0!
  • We are watching you. You cannot run. You cannot hide!

This made me curious, of course. So I searched for it in all documents we have access to and found some more explicit mentions, and a conversation:

CAPTURED CONVERSATION FROM UNKOWN good day. i just got thi8s... notice on the document you sent me. was it intentional? oh. i heard some rumours about this. main person introduced it recently, apparently. fully automated system to clear any sensitive information from public documents or docs accessible to lowly downlelers like you. anything i should do then? also, stop being an idiot. you will regret it when i am your superiur and come after you. [...] Infighting and poor grammar aside, this confirmed my theory. So I started digging a bit more and found a way to send documents to it. It seems to be pretty sluggish and old, and since it accepts anything you send its way, i thought there might be a vulnerability hiding in it? If we manage to gain control of the hypervisor, we basically have full access to the entirety of Ruine's network. weird grammar aside.. Do you have any suggestions? Would it be possible for you to help us?

• Kelly