He didn't look at Panopticon. He didn't call the NOC. Those people would spend 20 minutes on a bridge call asking about change tickets. Marcus had the source. He knew that HRM had a hidden function—a backdoor built by the original engineers for exactly this kind of nightmare.
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Expert-level C/C++ skills and a deep understanding of networking protocols (OSI layers, dynamic routing). He didn't look at Panopticon