ho were demonstrably guilty
of interstate trafficking in illicitly copied AT&T source code.
Izenberg was swept into the dragnet around Terminus, the
self-proclaimed ultimate UNIX hacker.

Izenberg, in Austin, had settled down into a UNIX job with a Texan
branch of IBM. Izenberg was no longer working as a contractor for
AT&T, but he had friends in New Jersey, and he still logged on to AT&T
UNIX computers back in New Jersey, more or less whenever it pleased
him. Izenberg's activities appeared highly suspicious to the Task
Force. Izenberg might well be breaking into AT&T computers, swiping
AT&T software, and passing it to Terminus and other possible
confederates, through the UNIX node network. And this data was worth,
not merely $79,499, but hundreds of thousands of dollars!

On February 21, 1990, Robert Izenberg arrived home from work at IBM to
find that all the computers had mysteriously vanished from his Austin
apartment. Naturally he assumed that he had been robbed. His
"Elephant" node, his other machines, his notebooks, his disks, his
tapes, all gone! However, nothing much else seemed disturbed--the
place had not been ransacked. The puzzle becaming much stranger some
five minutes later. Austin U. S. Secret Service Agent Al Soliz,
accompanied by University of Texas campus-security officer Larry
Coutorie and the ubiquitous Tim Foley, made their appearance at
Izenberg's door. They were in plain clothes: slacks, polo shirts.
They came in, and Tim Foley accused Izenberg of belonging to the Legion
of Doom.

Izenberg told them that he had never heard of the "Legion of Doom." And
what about a certain stolen E911 Document, that posed a direct threat
to the police emergency lines? Izenberg claimed that he'd never heard
of that, either.

His interrogators found this difficult to believe. Didn't he know
Terminus?

Who?

They gave him Terminus's real name. Oh yes, said Izenberg. He knew
THAT guy all right--he was leading discussions on the Internet about
AT&T computers, especially the AT&T 3B2.

AT&T had thrust this machine into the marketplace, but, like many of
AT&T's ambitious attempts to enter the computing arena, the 3B2 project
had something less than a glittering success. Izenberg himself had
been a contractor for the division of AT&T that supported the 3B2. The
entire division had been shut down.

Nowadays, the cheapest and quickest way to get help with this fractious
piece of machinery was to