Interlude One: Kemal: Spamcop; Felix: First Citizen, and The Operation: Blofeld Blues Summary

Kemal sits on the plane on final approach to Edinburgh airport and contemplates the last time he was there. It has been five years, and the first time he was traveling with a team and had a Judge d'Inquisition email that gave him a wide range of authority to override objections by local police. Things had not gone well. Now, the internet is mostly spam - unregulated and unethical. AI filters scan the traffic, but are not able to spam from ham ninety five percent of the time. This week, for some reason, there haven't been any new botnets and spam has actually fallen, but Kemal has no idea why and he, along with everyone else is wondering 'what next?'...