Pci Ven_10ec&dev_8136&subsys 'link' Today

The terminal screen blinked. Then it typed on its own:

Liam felt the cold realization sink in. The SUBSYS field wasn't missing. It was being hidden . This wasn't a network card. It was a backdoor etched in silicon, a phantom node that could listen to everything on the bus—every keystroke, every memory access—and report to a listener that had no return address. pci ven_10ec&dev_8136&subsys

He touched the surface of the chip.

He reached for the hot air rework station to desolder the chip. The terminal screen blinked

Liam’s hand froze. "Who are you?"