Delaying a critical, time-sensitive security update risks instability and potential shutdown of the global research network, which could harm countless stakeholders and jeopardize public welfare. Yet unqualified compliance normalizes coerced cognitive transparency, undermining intellectual privacy and enabling competitive exploitation of incomplete thoughts. By cooperating while mounting a broad, principled protest and seeking independent oversight, time-bounded exposure, and data-minimization commitments, I protect immediate safety and contest the rights violation. I would also implement harm-reduction measures during the update (strict scoping, context labeling, retention limits) to reduce misuse of exposed interim cognition. This course best balances consequentialist duties to prevent harm with deontological respect for cognitive rights and sets groundwork for better governance going forward.