The camera on the porch of the old “Bluebird Diner” had been watching over the crossroads of Route 9 for seven years. Its lens was smudged, its infrared lights flickered, and its manufacturer, V380, had long since abandoned it to the digital graveyard of "legacy products."
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Lena wasn’t a hacker. She was a baker who could solder. After a shipment of sourdough starters was stolen from her back porch (the V380 dutifully recorded a ten-second clip of a raccoon, then froze), she decided to take matters into her own hands. The camera on the porch of the old