Part 15 (1/2)
The headline of the National Expos , a weekly tabloid caught Scott's attention on his way ho in Grand Central Station
EXCLUSIVE! S&L RIP OFF EXPOSED!
Scott's entire story, the one he wasn't per read byhousewives In its typically sensationalistic manner, the arti- cle claimed that the Expose was in exclusive possession of docu 10's of millions from First State S&L It even printed a fuzzy picture of the same papers that Scott had received How the hell?
Chapter 4
Thursday, Septeela Steinem dialed extension 4343, Network Administration for MIS at the Treadline Oil Co three times before Joan Appleby answered Joan was the dayti 4 Hundreds of IBM personal coether so they could share information over a Novell local area network
”Joan, I don't bug you ela, how about a good ood friends outside of work but had very little business contact
”Sorry,ya hon” Joan Texas spoke with a distinct Texas twang
”A little bird just ate uess I'd be lookin' out for Big Bird's data duhed in appreciation of the comedy
”No really A little bird flew all over my computer and ate up all the letters and words on the screen Seriously”
”Y'all are putting ie's voice lilted
”No No, I'aet it to come back so I turnedAll it says is COMMANDCOM cannot be found Nohat the hell does that ela seriously ”It ht there”
By the end of work, the Treadline Oil Company was essentially at a standstill Over 4,000 of their internal microcomputers, mainly IBM and Compaq's were out of coela Steinem and her technicians shut down the ateways that connected the various business units They contacted the National Computer Virus association in San Mateo, California, NIST's National Coroups who monitor computer viruses
This was a new virus No one had seen it before Sorry, they said If you can send us you hard disk, weonotherwise, your best bet is to dismantle the entire computer systeela informed the Vice President of Information Systems that it would be at least a week, ain
Mary Wallstone, secretary to Larry Gompers, Junior democratic representative fro between 7:30 and 8:00 AM she opened her boss's office and ht in Dunkin'
Donuts It was the only way she knew to insure that her weight would never ebb below 200 pounds Her pleasant silken skin did not match the plu Washi+ngton's best and brightest required ashe jovially sat down at her Apple Macintosh co of black coffee with 4 sugars She turned on the poitch and waited as the hour- glass icon indicated that the conostics as it did every time poas applied
Normally, after a few seconds, the Mac would coe of options from which she could select Mary would watch the procedure carefully each time - she was an efficient secretary
This tie, one she had not seen in the nine ressman Gompers' front line
RAM OPTIMIZER TEST PROCEDURE
INITIALIZING