> WHO ARE YOU
I typed HELP . The response came back in green monospace:
The screen went black.
I work at a cloud security firm. Our entire job is to kill dead endpoints. But eBuddy? That domain was parked years ago. Its certificates expired. Its DNS roots are a graveyard. Yet here it was: a 200 OK response. Not a 404. Not a redirect. A full, blinking, HTML page served from a server that, according to every cloud provider, does not exist.
At 3:18 AM, exactly one minute after the request, my terminal printed a new line without my input:
se stands for "suspended entity."
I have exactly two choices: pull the plug on a machine that shouldn't exist, or let it finish whatever it came back to say.
That’s when my coffee went cold.