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He typed: sudo rm -rf /var/www/image_hosting/*

Alex took a deep breath, cracked his knuckles, and opened a new terminal window. He wasn't a legacy archivist anymore. He was a coroner, performing an autopsy on a corpse that was still walking. The fluorescent light flickered

Someone knew he had found it. And "End of life" didn't mean the software.

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He stared at the code of index.php again. He had read it a hundred times. But tonight, he noticed a tiny, clever hook in the imagecreatefromjpeg() function. A block of base64 encoded logic that unpacked only if a specific byte sequence was present in the EXIF data.