Steve Cate

So they asked if they could put a server monitoring our server and just spy on the spies. And it wouldn't cost us anything or affect us, just continue business as usual. And that was the last we heard from them for months.

They were trying to get to the big ones. And they would never think twice about little old Kate Machine and Welding trying to access their server, apparently. So that's why they did it. But yeah, I mean, we were just a funnel for them.

I don't know what year The Dark Knight came out. There's a scene in there where Bruce Wayne has to catch the bad guy, and so he taps into everyone's cell phones and uses them as a big spy device. And I remember thinking, like, this reminds me of what we went through. Like, no one wants it to happen until there's chaos. And then it's like, ooh, what do we do now?

We had probably 15 people working at our shop. Everyone knew the project you were working on, so when all of a sudden someone shows up and they're ripping apart the server room, everyone wants to know what's going on. I'm Steve Cate, and I'm the third generation owner of a small family machine shop called Cate Machine and Welding.