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A victim of horrific human research opened their laptop to check on a judge who was going to decide the fate of somebody they were charged with controlling.

They knew everything they did on this laptop would be watched and considered by another victim of horrific human research.  This other victim was their friend.

Such situations are a bind.  If you don't misdirect the trial well enough, the computer algorithms surveilling you can torture you and your friends.  On the other hand, sometimes it takes torture of the people involved to get the trial to go how desired.

Luckily this group had been doing this a while.  They had an unspoken agreement, that everything done was to protect everyone involved from as much suffering as possible, no matter who they were.

What they didn't know, was that their laptop was bugged by somebody outside the business, too.

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