Part 27 (1/2)
The Center for Disease Control reacted with abject terror at the thought of seeing the name of thousands of AIDS victims in the newspaper Never the less, the CDC refused to comfirm that their files had been penetrated or any of the naave him virtually the same story Above and beyond the official denial to any press; far from the accusatory claims which were universally denied for a wide variety of rea- sons, all of his contacts were, in his opinion, honestly shocked that he even had a hint of their alleged infractions
Scott Mason began to feel he was part of a conspiracy, one in which everyone he called was a victim One in which he received the same formatted answer; more surprise than denial
Scott kneas onto a story, but he had no idea what it was
He had in his possession da data, froet a confirot lawyered
When he presented his case to his editor, Scott's worst fears were confirer story was in the o Not yet That's an order
Keep digging
”And while you're at it,” Doug said with the pleasure of a father teasing his son, ”follow this up, will you? I need it by dead- line”
Scott took the AP printout froasped, ”not another virus!” He threw the paper on his desk ”I' said firs are such bullshi+t”
”Then say so But say so”
Chapter 7 Thursday, Septes Disease to America By Scott Mason
Here's a story I can't resist, regardless of the absurdity of the headline In this case the words are borrowed from a story title in last week's National Expose, that most revered of journalistic publications which distributes half truths and tortured conclu- sions fro nobodies
The title shouldlike,
”Terror Feared in New Coe to Coinary Panic?”
According to computer experts, this Columbus Day, October 12, will mark a repeat appearance of the now infamous Columbus Day Virus As for the last several years, that is the anticipated date for a highly viral computer virus to 'explode' The history behind the headline reads froroup of West Gerreat fun to build their own coular readers recall, a coram whose sole purpose is to wreak havoc in co i the system
We no that that these Gerroup known as CHAOS, an acronyainst Open Systems, whatever the heck that means They work to promote computer systems disruption ide
In March of 1989, Amsterdam, Holland, hosted an international conference of coalactic Hackers Conference Some meative publicity hackers have gotten over the last few years, the Conference issued a stateation and creation of coroup of people whose sole purpose in life is to invade the privacy of others But, that's what they said
Soot released at the Intergalactic Hackers itiot corrupted by this disreputable band, and the infections began spreading
The first outbreak of the Columbus Day Virus occurred in 1989, and caused millions of dollars of down computer time, reconstruc- tion of data banks and systeain we are warned, that the infection has continued to spread and that sorammed to detonate over a period of years The Columbus Day Virus is called by its creators, the ”Data Cri its purpose