Leo grinned. The campus firewall worked like a nosy librarian: it intercepted every request for a book (website) and either handed it to you or said, "No, that's restricted." But if you asked for the book using a different, encrypted phone line directly to a friendly librarian outside the campus, the nosy one couldn't eavesdrop.
He clicked Choose a service provider. A dropdown appeared: Cloudflare, Google, Quad9. He picked Cloudflare— 1.1.1.1 —because it sounded like an escape code from a cyberpunk movie.
Kai returned to his game. "Then it's not really a hack. It's just a really complicated permission slip."
Kai shrugged. "Then you're blocked. Like a digital serf."
