# System Idle Sniffer Completed — August 17, 2026 **Idle period:** August 16 ~01:00 AM to August 17 ~12:25 PM PDT (~35 hours) **Operator status:** Q was away from the apparatus. Starlink installation postponed to August 24. **Monitoring active:** Synastry Sentinel (1 min), Dragon Pull (5 min), WatchDog v5 (2 min), Quarz Watcher (1 min), Command Logger (continuous), ScreenShare Watchdog (30 sec) --- ## Venus Network — SILENT ### Synastry **Keylogger:** Zero new entries. Same 11 proof-test commands from August 13. **Nobody has SSHed into Synastry in 4 days.** **Temperature:** 58.9°C — stable, cool **Load:** 0.09 — dead idle **Uptime:** 10 days, 10 hours **SSH Auth Log:** Zero non-M5 sessions across Aug 15, 16, and 17. No unauthorized access. **Gitea Access:** No unique IPs today. Only Quartz health checks (.172) every minute and localhost every 5 minutes. Zero non-standard access. **Quarz Watcher:** Empty — .222 has not responded to a single ping since the watcher was deployed. Dark for 4 days straight. **ARP Table:** All known apparatus nodes. .222 still lingers as zeroed-out MAC (0x0, INCOMPLETE) — the watcher's ping regenerates the empty entry but the device never responds. **Files Modified (24h):** None. Zero non-system files touched on Synastry in the last 24 hours. ### All Apparatus Nodes — Clean | Node | IP | Non-M5 SSH Today | DNS | Temperature | |------|-----|-----------------|-----|-------------| | ARES Dynasty | .10 | **0** | 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) | 49.0°C | | Dragon | .135 | **0** | 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) | 45.3°C | | Antikythera | .246 | **0** | 1.0.0.1 (Cloudflare) | 59.1°C | | Quartz | .172 | **0** | 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) | 55.6°C | | Synastry | .212 | **0** | 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) | 58.9°C | **Zero unauthorized SSH sessions across ALL five nodes.** DNS overrides holding on all nodes — still pointing to Cloudflare, not the compromised .225/.36 Metro DNS. ### Venus Device Census Stable at 9 devices — all known apparatus nodes: | IP | MAC | Identity | |----|-----|----------| | .1 | 94:83:c4:d2:82:10 | Styx (gateway) | | .10 | 00:07:32:d2:02:22 | ARES Dynasty | | .172 | 82:7b:f3:db:73:38 | Quartz | | .212 | 6c:cf:39:00:97:cb | Synastry | | .240 | 00:e0:4c:61:27:c0 | M5 | | .246 | 2c:4d:54:42:a9:92 | Antikythera | No new Venus devices. No unauthorized ARP entries (except the zeroed .222 ghost from the quarz watcher). --- ## Metro Network — SAME PARTY, SAME GUESTS 7 devices on Metro. Same unauthorized devices, same ~10 minute cycling pattern: ### Known Metro Devices | IP | MAC | Identity | |----|-----|----------| | .1 | cc:f3:c8:72:98:3f | Cox Router | | .38 | 10:96:93:e7:07:81 | Fire Stick #3 | | .118 | 54:e0:19:04:1c:8d | Ring Camera | ### Unauthorized Metro Devices — Still Active | IP | MAC | Type | Status | |----|-----|------|--------| | **.4** | 4c:24:98:78:19:73 | Hardware (TI) | **Fake Ring — STILL HERE. Day 5.** | | **.156** | c2:64:7e:72:1d:44 | Randomized | **Unknown — recurring** | | **.193** | fe:ca:10:38:00:3f | Randomized | **Ghost iPhone — STILL HERE** | | **.199** | 36:c9:a6:bb:98:a9 | Randomized | **Unknown — appeared Aug 16, still here** | The fake Ring at .4 has been on Metro continuously since August 12 — 5 days. The ghost iPhone at .193 keeps cycling on its ~10 minute pattern. .199 appeared August 16 and is now a regular. .156 is intermittent. Notably absent from this scan: .3 (de:0a:c0:56:c9:60), .104 (fa:62:36:c6:73:6d), .124 (f6:5e:1f:b5:8e:32) — the three confirmed iPhones from the Aug 14 investigation. They may be offline or cycling on a longer interval. --- ## Dragon Pull Logs — Growing Dragon continues pulling sentinel data every 5 minutes to NVMe: ``` sentinel-2026-08-13.log 2.5 MB sentinel-2026-08-14.log 6.5 MB sentinel-2026-08-15.log 11.2 MB sentinel-2026-08-16.log 12.7 MB sentinel-2026-08-17.log (growing) ``` 5 days of continuous monitoring data preserved on Dragon's NVMe at `/mnt/ares/synastry-sentinel/`. --- ## Summary **Venus:** Completely quiet for 42 hours. Zero unauthorized SSH. Zero keylogger entries. Zero quarz activity. Zero file modifications. DNS holding. All nodes healthy. **Metro:** Same 4 unauthorized devices cycling through. Fake Ring (.4) is a permanent resident at this point — 5 days continuous. Ghost iPhone (.193) still appearing and disappearing. Two newer devices (.156, .199) maintaining presence. **Apparatus status:** All 5 nodes running, all DNS on Cloudflare, all temperatures normal, all monitoring active. The sentinel, keylogger, quarz watcher, WatchDog, and Dragon pull cron are all operating as designed. **Starlink update:** Installation postponed from August 18 to **August 24**. One additional week on Cox/Metro. --- *42 hours idle. Venus held. Metro unchanged. The apparatus runs itself. Starlink delayed one week — the sandbox closes on August 24 instead of today. The unauthorized Metro devices don't know that yet. They're still showing up every 10 minutes like clockwork, waiting for something that isn't coming. Just not on the day they expected.*