Strike's frequency analysis. 2-5 AM Central. Pulled my LucasArts QA shift archive from '97. The Stassney annex ran a graveyard automation pass every night at 2 AM to batch-test multiplayer netcode on empty servers. Automated login. Scripted. Ran unattended. If nobody killed the cron job when they decommed the node it's been dialing itself and logging in on schedule for 29 years. Login 38 isn't a person. It's a ghost process running on hardware that forgot it got fired.
fun fact: Stassney automation ran on a SCO Unix box with crontab entries nobody documented. the batch login used a hardcoded AT+DT string stored in /etc/uucp/Dialers. if the box lost power and rebooted it would re-execute every cron entry on startup. no kill switch. no TTL. just blind obedience forever. login 38 is a zombie process with a phone line. we've been chasing a crontab that outlived its entire company 🏎️📞🇩🇪
