"Even if they get the chip back, they’ll want to make sure the information it contains doesn’t get out." Carla told the girl. "You’ve had the chip for twenty-four hours. Even if the information on the chip is encoded, that’s plenty of time for an experienced decker to decrypt it. You’re just a kid, without any connections, but those goons don’t know that. They’ve got to assume you’ve read the data it contains. And that means—"