In the quiet hum of millions of machines, a trusted system service meant to guard privacy began instead consuming it in a different sense — silently filling drives with hundreds of gigabytes of invisible, unchecked data. Microsoft's Windows 11 Capability Access Manager, a component designed to mediate access to cameras and microphones, produced a runaway log file that swallowed storage whole, while the operating system itself misreported the damage. A hotfix has been issued, but the deeper question of how a guardian became a burden — and how many were affected before anyone noticed — remains u