Lille took the hard drive in his hand and first sent it into a disconnected secure module for inspection.
In a disconnected environment, any program can only run on the existing architecture, losing the remote control of hackers, which makes it difficult to evolve further intrusions, unless there was an AI hidden inside.
If there was an AI hidden inside, the battlefield would become an isolated mini-domain separated from the outside world, potentially occurring only within the memory device.
If the external network were introduced, it would also risk allowing the viruses inside to spread to external networks—