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He made a simple rule afterward: software that promises registration without verification, or protection without provenance, was never free—someone else paid. The cost could be a file, a schedule, or the slow theft of normal days. He kept his backups redundant, his tools verified, and his curiosity disciplined. The laptop hummed contentedly again, guarded not by a phantom, but by habit.
