Kris took his smartphone with a curious and slightly fascinated expression, and immediately turned it on to examine this technological artifact. He grinned widely as he went through the settings; it appeared at least his had been jailbroken, and the network adapter had been swapped out for one with a built-in WiFi hotspot to connect with other nearby mobile devices. All he needed was to download a mobile VPN for all 3 phones, and communications with Angelo and Lily would be virtually invisible to bugs or hacks. Then he opened up the camera app, and messed around with old-school controls; back then you even had manual sliders for brightness and contrast. On a whim, he tested the results on himself with another old fad: the selfie.