Part 129 (1/2)

Chapter 26

Midnight, Tuesday, January 19 Scarsdale, New York

Scott Mason awaited Kirk's ht call

Now that they had a deal, a in situation, Kirk and his phriends had becoreed to help Scott in the dGraph and Freedom situations if Scott would make sure that his articles clearly spelled out the difference between the white-hat and black-hat hackers

Journalistic responsibility demanded fair treatment of all sides and their respective opinions, and Scott atte objectivity to his analyses He did this well, quite well, and still was able to include his own views and biases, as long as they were properly qualified and disclaimed

Additionally, Kirk wanted assurances of total anonymity and that Scott would not atteree to keep his Federal friends at a distance and announce if they were privy to the conversations

In exchange for fair portrayals in the press, privacy and no government intervention, Kirk promised Scott that the resources of Ne defenses to the virus at- tacks in dGraph and Freedoht, millions of computers would experience the electronic equivalent of sudden cardiac arrest in less than teeks

The Tireed to the relationshi+p but added their oorking caveats In order to treat Kirk as a protected source, they pretended he was a personal contact Instead of reporter's notes, Scott maintained an open file which recorded the entirety of their computer conversations There were no precedents for real-tiins felt confident that the records would protect the paper in any event

Besides,Supre of con- versations by hidden devices, as long as the person taping is actually present Again, Higgins felt he had solid position, but he did ask Scott to ask Kirk's perreed

At ht, Scott's computer beeped the anticipated beep

WTFO

I heard a good one

JOKE?

Yeah, do they work over computer?

TRY ME

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were in Europe and got to meet the Pope Dopey really wanted to asked the Pope a few questions ”Mr Pope, Mr Pope Do you have pretty nuns?”

”Of course we do, Dopey” ”Mr Pope, do you have fat ugly nuns?”

”Why, yes, Dopey, we do” ”And I bet, Mr Pope, that you have some tall skinny nuns, too” ”Yes, Dopey we do” ”Mr Pope? Do you have nuns in Chicago?” ”Yes, Dopey, we have nuns in Chicago?” ”And in San Francisco and New York?” ”Yes, Dopey”

”And do you have nuns in Africa and Australia and in France?”

”Yes, Dopey We have nuns everywhere” Dopey took a second to think and finally asked, ”Mr Pope? Do you have nuns in Antarc- tica?” ”No, Dopey, I'm sorry, we don't have any nuns in Antarc- tica” The other six dwarfs i: ”Dopey fucked a penguin Dopey fucked a penguin”

HA HA HA HA HA!!! LOVE IT REAL ICE BREAKER HA HA

Facetious?

NO, THAT'S GREAT IS YOUR RECORDER ON?

You bet No plagiarisot?

MORE THAN I WISH I DID DGRAPH FIRST WE HAVE IDENTIFIED 54 SEPARATE DGRAPH VIRUSES I HAVE A FILE FOR YOU IT LISTS THE VIRUS BY DETONATION DATE AND TYPE, SYMPTOMS AND THE SIGNATURES NEEDED FOR REMOVAL ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO PRINT IT ALL?