ide open and alerted telco security to the
scope of the problem. But Fry Guy's crimes would not put the Atlanta
Three behind bars--much less the wacko underground journalists of
Phrack. So on July 22, 1989, the same day that Fry Guy was raided in
Indiana, the Secret Service descended upon the Atlanta Three.

This was likely inevitable. By the summer of 1989, law enforcement
were closing in on the Atlanta Three from at least six directions at
once. First, there were the leads from Fry Guy, which had led to the
DNR registers being installed on the lines of the Atlanta Three. The
DNR evidence alone would have finished them off, sooner or later.

But second, the Atlanta lads were already well-known to Control-C and
his telco security sponsors. LoD's contacts with telco security had
made them overconfident and even more boastful than usual; they felt
that they had powerful friends in high places, and that they were being
openly tolerated by telco security. But BellSouth's Intrusion Task
Force were hot on the trail of LoD and sparing no effort or expense.

The Atlanta Three had also been identified by name and listed on the
extensive anti-hacker files maintained, and retailed for pay, by
private security operative John Maxfield of Detroit. Maxfield, who had
extensive ties to telco security and many informants in the
underground, was a bete noire of the Phrack crowd, and the dislike was
mutual.

The Atlanta Three themselves had written articles for Phrack. This
boastful act could not possibly escape telco and law enforcement
attention.

"Knightmare," a high-school age hacker from Arizona, was a close friend
and disciple of Atlanta LoD, but he had been nabbed by the formidable
Arizona Organized Crime and Racketeering Unit. Knightmare was on some
of LoD's favorite boards--"Black Ice" in particular--and was privy to
their secrets. And to have Gail Thackeray, the Assistant Attorney
General of Arizona, on one's trail was a dreadful peril for any hacker.

And perhaps worst of all, Prophet had committed a major blunder by
passing an illicitly copied BellSouth computer-file to Knight
Lightning, who had published it in Phrack. This, as we will see, was
an act of dire consequence for almost everyone concerned.

On July 22, 1989, the Secret Service showed up at the Leftist's house,
where he lived with his parents. A massive squad of some twenty
officers surrounded the building: Secret Service, federal marshals,
lo