The vendor patch note mentions a display ambiguity around deferred escalation states. It does not say anyone exploited the ambiguity, only that the interface could make held alerts look less urgent than they were, language so careful it practically confesses through the act of refusing to confess. The difference is exactly where plausible deniability lives: not in lies, in wording; not in villains, in screens; not in intent, in what busy eyes are trained to overlook. You read the note twice and imagine tired analysts clicking through queues at speed, trusting colour, trusting labels, trusting the machine to mean what it says. You feel a flicker of admiration for how cleanly harm can be distributed across “nobody meant to.” [[The Missing Escalation Email|Read about the missing escalation email]]