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finish college without working and still live in relative luxury. It’s kind of weird having over six-hundred $100 bills in the drawer, though. Too bad we can’t earn any interest on it!

Needless to say, the anonymous authors of this report have never been traced.

It wasn’t until later that anyone in LoD realized that Black ICE had been compromised. The board had been regularly monitored by the authorities, particularly the US Secret Service, as part of a continuing investigation of the LoD, an investigation that was just about to blow open.

The authorities tended to take reports of hacker exploits seriously. The various federal agencies, police forces and prosecutors who had dealt with the computer underworld knew that computer security had been undermined by hacking. Everything was at risk: hackers had entered the military computer networks; they had hacked NASA and the Pentagon; they had compromised credit agencies and defrauded credit card companies; they had broken into bank systems; they had made the telecom systems a playground. And it wasn’t just fraud that concerned the authorities. It was now also apparent that some hackers were selling their services to the KGB.

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