Elias wasn't a hacker in the traditional sense. He was a restorer. He took broken things and made them whole.
"It's not me!" Elias shouted back, his fingers flying across the keyboard. "The phone is sending a distress signal to every contact in the secure list! It’s broadcasting the location of the reader—us!" nv items reader writer
Some NV item stores are compressed with zlib or LZ4, and sometimes lightly XOR-encrypted. A good reader/writer integrates these transparently. Elias wasn't a hacker in the traditional sense