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He opened an isolated virtual machine—a digital sandbox with no network access—and copied one encrypted file into it: Project_Nova_Floorplan.dwg.crypt . Then, with shaking hands, he typed the exact phrase into a homemade Python script he’d been tinkering with, treating the string as a potential password or XOR key.

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