Because viewing it meant the server would parse it, run get_status , see that The Observer had gone silent, and send the wake-up signal.
And "The Observer" wasn't a server. It was a piece of firmware, buried deep inside industrial control systems, smart-city traffic hubs, and legacy telecom switches. A sleeping backdoor. view indexframe shtml
STATUS: OBSERVER_ACTIVE. LAST SIGNAL: 2017-09-14 23:61:02 Because viewing it meant the server would parse