After Millie got home safely, the first thing she did was strip off all her clothes, squat on a chair, and connected two data cables from the home auxiliary computing device to her prosthetic body.
Ordinary households definitely wouldn't have this type of equipment. In this world, "personal computers" are contraband... because the chip itself can connect to the Sky Island server to carry out most cloud computing tasks.
Thus, the company achieved a complete monopoly on computing power—any "dangerous behavior" not permitted by the company simply could not exist.
Whether it was querying about some dangerous issue, interacting with someone, or transferring files… anything done using the chip was under the surveillance of the local headquarters. And the headquarters could also disconnect the usage rights of the chip at any time, perform a "manual disconnection" from the network, or look into any past transactions, chats, or browsing records.
