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objects that we weren’t in our flesh-and-blood bodies.

“Stupid! It’s all so stupid!”

“It’s not like you keep anything important on these servers,” I was quick to say, “and I know you make like a trillion backups… seriously, did you really lose anything valuable?”

“No, I didn’t,” she replied. “There wasn’t anything I can’t replace in a second, but I like to know that the places I store things are safe. I didn’t have to worry so much about this years ago, but now it seems like I’m constantly relying on AIs to fix things other AIs broke. If the owners of InTek and the millions of companies like it would be a little more responsible, their clients would be a lot happier.”

“Yeah, but artificial intelligence gets better every year, I’m sure that by next Christmas InTek’ll have much more powerful security.”

“And much more powerful viruses for it to fail against.”