k links to over eighty other
computer sites, all of which became dependent on Killer for their links
to the greater world of cyberspace. And it wasn't just for the big
guys; personal computer users also stored freeware programs for the
Amiga, the Apple, the IBM and the Macintosh on Killer's vast 3,200 meg
archives. At one time, Killer had the largest library of public-domain
Macintosh software in Texas.

Eventually, Killer attracted about 1,500 users, all busily
communicating, uploading and downloading, getting mail, gossipping, and
linking to arcane and distant networks.

Boykin received no pay for running Killer. He considered it good
publicity for the AT&T 3B2 system (whose sales were somewhat less than
stellar), but he also simply enjoyed the vibrant community his skill
had created. He gave away the bulletin-board UNIX software he had
written, free of charge.

In the UNIX programming community, Charlie Boykin had the reputation of
a warm, open-hearted, level-headed kind of guy. In 1989, a group of
Texan UNIX professionals voted Boykin "System Administrator of the
Year." He was considered a fellow you could trust for good advice.

In September 1988, without warning, the E911 Document came plunging
into Boykin's life, forwarded by Richard Andrews. Boykin immediately
recognized that the Document was hot property. He was not a
voice-communications man, and knew little about the ins and outs of the
Baby Bells, but he certainly knew what the 911 System was, and he was
angry to see confidential data about it in the hands of a nogoodnik.
This was clearly a matter for telco security. So, on September 21,
1988, Boykin made yet ANOTHER copy of the E911 Document and passed this
one along to a professional acquaintance of his, one Jerome Dalton,
from AT&T Corporate Information Security. Jerry Dalton was the very
fellow who would later raid Terminus's house.

From AT&T's security division, the E911 Document went to Bellcore.

Bellcore (or BELL COmmunications REsearch) had once been the central
laboratory of the Bell System. Bell Labs employees had invented the
UNIX operating system. Now Bellcore was a quasi-independent, jointly
owned company that acted as the research arm for all seven of the Baby
Bell RBOCs. Bellcore was in a good position to co-ordinate security
technology and consultation for the RBOCs, and the gentleman in charge
of this effort was Henry M. Kluepfel, a veteran of the Bell System who
had wo