lanta Three and their raids of
the Summer of 1989. We must leave Atlanta Three "cooperating fully"
with their numerous investigators. And all three of them did
cooperate, as their Sentencing Memorandum from the US District Court of
the Northern Division of Georgia explained--just before all three of
them were sentenced to various federal prisons in November 1990.

We must now catch up on the other aspects of the war on the Legion of
Doom. The war on the Legion was a war on a network--in fact, a network
of three networks, which intertwined and interrelated in a complex
fashion. The Legion itself, with Atlanta LoD, and their hanger-on Fry
Guy, were the first network. The second network was Phrack magazine,
with its editors and contributors.

The third network involved the electronic circle around a hacker known
as "Terminus."

The war against these hacker networks was carried out by a law
enforcement network. Atlanta LoD and Fry Guy were pursued by USSS
agents and federal prosecutors in Atlanta, Indiana, and Chicago.
"Terminus" found himself pursued by USSS and federal prosecutors from
Baltimore and Chicago. And the war against Phrack was almost entirely
a Chicago operation.

The investigation of Terminus involved a great deal of energy, mostly
from the Chicago Task Force, but it was to be the least-known and
least-publicized of the Crackdown operations. Terminus, who lived in
Maryland, was a UNIX programmer and consultant, fairly well-known
(under his given name) in the UNIX community, as an acknowledged expert
on AT&T minicomputers. Terminus idolized AT&T, especially Bellcore,
and longed for public recognition as a UNIX expert; his highest
ambition was to work for Bell Labs.

But Terminus had odd friends and a spotted history. Terminus had once
been the subject of an admiring interview in Phrack (Volume II, Issue
14, Phile 2--dated May 1987). In this article, Phrack co-editor Taran
King described "Terminus" as an electronics engineer, 5'9",
brown-haired, born in 1959--at 28 years old, quite mature for a hacker.

Terminus had once been sysop of a phreak/hack underground board called
"MetroNet," which ran on an Apple II. Later he'd replaced "MetroNet"
with an underground board called "MegaNet," specializing in IBMs. In
his younger days, Terminus had written one of the very first and most
elegant code-scanning programs for the IBM-PC. This program had been
widely distributed in the underground. Unco