Time to explain where the boy came from.
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Anyway, good luck with making the next page in your free time.
"You let them handcuff you?"
"It wouldn't be much of a surrender if I resisted."
Would a nano-machine lattice not be substantially weaker than any conventional atomic or molecular bond? It would be great for rapid re-configuration but terrible for structural integrity me thinks.
As to how he spied on the conversation, he's made of nanotech you goobs, he can probably stretch a nano-filament of himself into the room through cracks and crevaces in the room. Actively electrifying the walls could probably prevent that as machines that small would have very little by way of defensive capability by their lonesome.
I give a lot of thought to randomness like this, nanotechnology would have very clearly defined limits I think! What I am more curious about is where he will fit in Esperanza's legal framework, I am disappointed however that he is not a genuine Artificial Intelligence, oh well. At least he actively discussed the primary issue involved with powerful augmented individuals, synthetics or Artificial Intelligence in general, the element of trust being... unprovable essentially. Very cool touch.
She truly is the shortest stack huh?
It's unlikely that they met physically with the subject whose name I don't immediately know (Lazarus?), but that doesn't deny second- or third- or (insert degrees of Kevin Bacon)-th degree transferring some form of nanobot sensor that operates on a faraday-bying methodology. (I doubt he compromised the faraday cage, as he's being cooperative.)
Alternately, there may be a secondary, disconnected body that has already hooked into the sensor networks and is using convenient cameras or microphones to listen in. He said nothing about seeing them, after all.
Or there could be some form of weird super-sensor he's using to see through everything in the way, all the way into their room, and read the sonic vibrations off the monitor.
I suspect that the camera isn't hacked, due to intentions of good behavior, so I doubt he's overriding the camera view with a simulation while standing just out-of-view for both them and us. (Even if it would be funny.)