rked there for twenty-four years.

On October 13, 1988, Dalton passed the E911 Document to Henry
Kluepfel. Kluepfel, a veteran expert witness in telecommunications
fraud and computer-fraud cases, had certainly seen worse trouble than
this. He recognized the document for what it was: a trophy from a
hacker break-in.

However, whatever harm had been done in the intrusion was presumably
old news. At this point there seemed little to be done. Kluepfel made
a careful note of the circumstances and shelved the problem for the
time being.

Whole months passed.

February 1989 arrived. The Atlanta Three were living it up in Bell
South's switches, and had not yet met their comeuppance. The Legion
was thriving. So was Phrack magazine. A good six months had passed
since Prophet's AIMSX break-in. Prophet, as hackers will, grew weary
of sitting on his laurels. "Knight Lightning" and "Taran King," the
editors of Phrack, were always begging Prophet for material they could
publish. Prophet decided that the heat must be off by this time, and
that he could safely brag, boast, and strut.

So he sent a copy of the E911 Document--yet another one--from Rich
Andrews' Jolnet machine to Knight Lightning's BITnet account at the
University of Missouri. Let's review the fate of the document so far.

0. The original E911 Document. This in the AIMSX system on a
mainframe computer in Atlanta, available to hundreds of people, but
all of them, presumably, BellSouth employees. An unknown number of
them may have their own copies of this document, but they are all
professionals and all trusted by the phone company.

1. Prophet's illicit copy, at home on his own computer in Decatur,
Georgia.

2. Prophet's back-up copy, stored on Rich Andrew's Jolnet machine
in the basement of Rich Andrews' house near Joliet Illinois.

3. Charles Boykin's copy on "Killer" in Dallas, Texas,
sent by Rich Andrews from Joliet.

4. Jerry Dalton's copy at AT&T Corporate Information Security in New
Jersey, sent from Charles Boykin in Dallas.

5. Henry Kluepfel's copy at Bellcore security headquarters in New
Jersey, sent by Dalton.

6. Knight Lightning's copy, sent by Prophet from Rich Andrews' machine,
and now in Columbia, Missouri.

We can see that the "security" situation of this proprietary document,
once dug out of AIMSX, swiftly became bizarre. Without any money
changing hands, without any particu