Anil nodded, let them glance around. They saw dozens of dead Nokia phones, piles of batteries, screens. No live transmitter. No amber-glowing screen.
Anil froze. Someone—or something—on the network knew the firmware was alive.
He connected his JAF box to his old Windows XP machine, loaded the v8.75_bi file, and bypassed the certificate checks. The flash process was silent, methodical. Red light, green light, then a reboot.
Anil had a choice: destroy the firmware, or use it.