E911 Document, now titled "Control Office Administration
Of Enhanced 911 Services for Special Services and Major Account
Centers." Eavesdropper's second article was a glossary of terms
explaining the blizzard of telco acronyms and buzzwords in the E911
Document.

The hapless document was now distributed, in the usual Phrack routine,
to a good one hundred and fifty sites. Not a hundred and fifty PEOPLE,
mind you--a hundred and fifty SITES, some of these sites linked to UNIX
nodes or bulletin board systems, which themselves had readerships of
tens, dozens, even hundreds of people.

This was February 1989. Nothing happened immediately. Summer came,
and the Atlanta crew were raided by the Secret Service. Fry Guy was
apprehended. Still nothing whatever happened to Phrack. Six more
issues of Phrack came out, 30 in all, more or less on a monthly
schedule. Knight Lightning and co-editor Taran King went untouched.

Phrack tended to duck and cover whenever the heat came down. During
the summer busts of 1987--(hacker busts tended to cluster in summer,
perhaps because hackers were easier to find at home than in
college)--Phrack had ceased publication for several months, and laid
low. Several LoD hangers-on had been arrested, but nothing had
happened to the Phrack crew, the premiere gossips of the underground.
In 1988, Phrack had been taken over by a new editor, "Crimson Death," a
raucous youngster with a taste for anarchy files. 1989, however,
looked like a bounty year for the underground. Knight Lightning and
his co-editor Taran King took up the reins again, and Phrack flourished
throughout 1989. Atlanta LoD went down hard in the summer of 1989, but
Phrack rolled merrily on. Prophet's E911 Document seemed unlikely to
cause Phrack any trouble. By January 1990, it had been available in
Phrack for almost a year. Kluepfel and Dalton, officers of Bellcore
and AT&T security, had possessed the document for sixteen months--in
fact, they'd had it even before Knight Lightning himself, and had done
nothing in particular to stop its distribution. They hadn't even told
Rich Andrews or Charles Boykin to erase the copies from their UNIX
nodes, Jolnet and Killer.

But then came the monster Martin Luther King Day Crash of January 15,
1990.

A flat three days later, on January 18, four agents showed up at Knight
Lightning's fraternity house. One was Timothy Foley, the second
Barbara Golden, both of them Secret Service agent