The system knows what you'll buy before you do
The Null Identity: Plight of the Zeros — a literary techno-thriller for the age of AI surveillance, data brokers, and the people reduced to a score.
A new chapter releases free every Thursday. The fiction is invented; the architecture underneath it is not — and The Signal shows you which is which.
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Why this, why now. The systems inside the novel — data brokers selling servicemembers’ locations, pig-butchering fraud, healthcare ransomware, behavioral scoring — are real. The Signal is the sourced companion that takes them apart, dispatch by dispatch, as the story unfolds. Behavioral profile: optional. Curiosity: required.
Who’s behind it. Jeff Hanson has spent thirty years inside these systems — most recently building the hyperscale data centers that run modern AI. The Null Identity is his debut novel and the opening file in a larger record of technological power, identity erasure, and the people who refuse to become Zeros. More about the author →