As he unplugged the console cable, the driver logged one final message to the terminal:
Hendricks just tapped his nose. “Versions lie. Magic doesn’t.” cisco_usbconsole_driver_3_1
For three seconds, nothing happened. Then, his laptop screen flickered. The Device Manager refreshed with a sound like a stone dropping into a well. The yellow exclamation mark vanished. In its place: Cisco Serial (COM5) . As he unplugged the console cable, the driver