But as the metrics returned to normal, Jenna didn’t celebrate. She opened a new ticket.
The red banner flashed again.
He leaned over. His eyes widened. “That’s a skeleton key. Jack was a cowboy—he built that for testing and swore he’d remove it. If it’s still there… Jenna, if the wrong person finds that header, they own us. But if we use it now, we can bypass the auth gateway entirely and talk directly to the legacy nodes.”