The case started as a whisper. Three state senators, two defense contractors, and a man who merely downloaded too much anime had all experienced the same phenomenon: their decade-old, air-gapped Windows XP machines would wake from sleep at exactly 3:15 AM, their fans whirring like trapped hornets, and then fall silent before anyone could witness them.
She hadn't enabled hibernation. She hadn't even closed the lid. hiberfil sys xp
She typed the command. The system paused. The case started as a whisper