Signal / Noise — Original Fiction: Surveillance Technology and the Cost of Certainty

A literary short story following Marcus Webb, a network engineer whose professional knowledge of real RF attack vectors — Frey effect, FMCW radar, IMSI catchers, laser microphones — pulls him into a spiral of hypervigilance. Six chapters exploring the blurry boundary between documented threat and the mind that searches too hard for patterns. The technology is real. The story is fiction.

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