"Actually, I was thinking earlier, we keep lumping the media and the public together but they're not the same, right?"

"—oh, I see what you mean. Having lots of eyes around increases control security but what lowers location security is those eyes sharing the information."

"Right! Even if the media will share information with the public eventually we can get it to not share it live."

"They could still be compromised internally."

"Yeah but that's true regardless, and it's still a lot safer than a whole crowd of civilians posting to Instagram."

"Plus the increase in control security from lots of eyes kind of maxes out reasonably early, right? There isn't much of a difference between fifty and a hundred people, nor even between twenty-five and fifty."

"But he doesn't work through technology so having more eyes behind screens helps."

"Instagram doesn't help much with that, though? People mostly don't livestream dungeons—like, a couple of them when the crowd is reasonably sized, but the usual pictures and uploaded videos are kind of reactive? I guess they usually upload those immediately but."

"While the media is constantly filming and having people watch it..."

"Right, and if we just consider the crew behind screens that's still a bunch of people Kang Jaeha has no access to."

"Why stop there? We already have radars and lidars and heat detectors on all sites being monitored by the support teams to deal with invisible monsters, we could also by default have cameras and have operatives looking at their feeds, it doesn't need to be media, the big advantage media has over that is just that it's distributed but we could 80/20 that."

Wait, right, Woo-young promised he'd get dessert, he got distracted. He gets up to go do that.

"Think we could swing that? Get everyone on board?"

"Woo-young said that the guild president knows about Kang Jaeha, right? So we could probably get Quasar buy-in?"

"On adding more monitoring to our support teams? Yeah."

"Everyone is freaking out about yesterday, though, I can't imagine other guilds wouldn't want to share the burden, and that'd make it even better for us."

"Do we actually have a way to keep civilian onlookers out, though?"

"Replace the yellow tape with canvas walls."

Desserts! They have a ton of bukkumi, bingsu with a variety of toppings, and Tae-gun even got Woo-young froyo! Woo-young appreciates his hyung.

"That wouldn't cover people looking on from surrounding buildings and such." Which some of them would do, the crazy bastards.

"This still increases location security relative to our present baseline, it'll be fewer people with access to the area and obstruct visibility anyway," says Si-yeon, jotting this idea down alongside all of the other ones everyone's been suggesting.

"Think we can get anywhere on the media thing?"

"Yes in Korea, it'll be tougher abroad especially in the West and it might require throwing some money around but, again, this will kind of get a ton of pressure from guilds. I'd honestly not be surprised if it became a government thing, and if the EU enacted some restrictions and pressured other countries and made noises about not letting their espers go abroad unless their regulations would be respected, GDPR-style, that'd be pretty solid?"

"Governments move very slowly, though."

"Not if you have enough money to pressure them and their intelligence agents threaten a riot. I know some psyops guys who could totally work this, too."