He generated the customs code for Mei, sent it in a message, and leaned back.
He opened a browser and typed with the careful precision of a bomb disposal expert: "VMware Horizon Client download."
LegacyCore was the ancient, cranky heart of the company’s supply chain system. It ran on an operating system that had been retired before some of the interns were born. The only way to access it without flying to the cold, humming data center in Omaha was through the company’s virtual desktop infrastructure—specifically, VMware Horizon.
This was the digital wild west. One wrong click, and instead of fixing LegacyCore, he’d be explaining to the CTO why the company’s customer database was being held for a Bitcoin ransom.