Localhost 1203 Proktor Work -

[PROKTOR@LOCALHOST ~]$ Still here.

The screen filled with data—but not his server’s usual logs. These were external IPs. Dates. Timestamps. Commands he’d never typed. Someone—or something—had been using his sandbox as a relay. And the last active session was timestamped five minutes ago. localhost 1203 proktor

Then, from his phone in his pocket—a single buzz. He didn’t want to look. But he did. [PROKTOR@LOCALHOST ~]$ Still here

Leo blinked. He’d set up this local server months ago as a sandbox for his cybersecurity thesis—a fake environment he’d named “Proktor” after an old chess engine. It wasn’t supposed to talk back. localhost 1203 proktor