n from her own company's computers, from her own
company's text files, that her own colleagues had written, and revised,
with much labor.

But the "value" of the Document had been blown to smithereens. It
wasn't worth eighty grand. According to Bellcore it was worth thirteen
bucks. And the looming menace that it supposedly posed had been
reduced in instants to a scarecrow. Bellcore itself was selling
material far more detailed and "dangerous," to anybody with a credit
card and a phone.

Actually, Bellcore was not giving this information to just anybody.
They gave it to ANYBODY WHO ASKED, but not many did ask. Not many
people knew that Bellcore had a free catalog and an 800 number. John
Nagle knew, but certainly the average teenage phreak didn't know.
"Tuc," a friend of Neidorf's and sometime Phrack contributor, knew, and
Tuc had been very helpful to the defense, behind the scenes. But the
Legion of Doom didn't know--otherwise, they would never have wasted so
much time raiding dumpsters. Cook didn't know. Foley didn't know.
Kluepfel didn't know. The right hand of Bellcore knew not what the
left hand was doing. The right hand was battering hackers without
mercy, while the left hand was distributing Bellcore's intellectual
property to anybody who was interested in telephone technical
trivia--apparently, a pathetic few.

The digital underground was so amateurish and poorly organized that
they had never discovered this heap of unguarded riches. The ivory
tower of the telcos was so wrapped-up in the fog of its own technical
obscurity that it had left all the windows open and flung open the
doors. No one had even noticed.

Zenner sank another nail in the coffin. He produced a printed issue of
Telephone Engineer & Management, a prominent industry journal that
comes out twice a month and costs $27 a year. This particular issue of
TE&M, called "Update on 911," featured a galaxy of technical details on
911 service and a glossary far more extensive than Phrack's.

The trial rumbled on, somehow, through its own momentum. Tim Foley
testified about his interrogations of Neidorf. Neidorf's written
admission that he had known the E911 Document was pilfered was
officially read into the court record.

An interesting side issue came up: "Terminus" had once passed Neidorf
a piece of UNIX AT&T software, a log-in sequence, that had been
cunningly altered so that it could trap passwords. The UNIX software
itself was i