Mango gives the order in three words: "Do it now." No preamble, no praise, no room for the careful version of you that likes to explain himself. The message sits on your screen like a burn mark. This was always the plan, the one you typed to Mango in a dead-eyed chat before any of it had faces: freeze PRAP at the right moment, force the margin-call fear, make them pay to get their system back. He is only cashing the promise. Behind your screen the machinery starts to move: scripts you cannot see, wallets you do not control, decisions made in other rooms with your consent as the smallest ingredient. Your part is no longer research. It is consent, and consent is uglier arriving as a text bubble than as a signature. You look at the two choices and understand you are not picking violence versus safety. You are picking violence now versus violence later, with interest. [[Cybercrime/The_Phisherman/Deploy The Freeze|Give the order to deploy]] --- [[Cybercrime/The_Phisherman/Do Nothing Yet|Hold off and do nothing]]