{"product_id":"null-protocol-ariel-ives-9798241970473","title":"Null Protocol: Documents Don't Disappear-Access Does","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are two kinds of history: the kind you can quote, and the kind that hides in routing slips.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a pristine archival box arrives at Halden University Special Collections, archivist Tessa Hart treats it like any other accession-photograph the seams, log the timestamps, protect the chain of custody. But the package is too clean, the instructions too confident, and the deed of gift strangely unfinished. Inside, a binder labeled \u003cb\u003eNULL PROTOCOL\u003c\/b\u003e lays out a continuity method for secret programs: how to keep development alive after scrutiny, how to reclassify activity into \"instrumentation,\" how to preserve capability for insiders while producing ambiguity for everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the archive itself moves before Tessa does. A pending accession generates a visitor request. A vendor service account edits fields from off-campus. A \"sensitivity\" flag appears as if it were law. When Tessa asks the simplest provenance questions-who is the donor, who is the custodian, who authorized the restrictions-she is offered \"help,\" then warned not to become a compliance problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefusing to be routed, Tessa builds her own record: screenshots, physical ledgers, audit trails, and cross-indexes that link the box to older faculty files and a coastal range whose paperwork has survived by being boring. The deeper she follows the seams-missing carbons, procurement ghosts, telemetry summaries-the clearer the design becomes: not a single hidden object, but an infrastructure for making claims unrecoverable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNULL PROTOCOL\u003c\/b\u003e is a procedural suspense novel about archives as battlegrounds, secrecy as workflow, and what it takes to force a system to name itself before it \"forgets\" you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ariel Ives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798241970473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Ariel Ives","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171628523775,"sku":"9798241970473","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/null-protocol-ariel-ives-9798241970473","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}