Part 145 (1/2)
”You've got to be kidding,” laughed Martin Royce holding up his file ”This stuff will be in today's uidelines for classification,” Marvin insisted ”We follow theets classified” matist in him saw the lunacy of the classifica- tion process, but the civil servant in hinored the coan Marv ”Well, I'll give it to him, Foster that is If what he says is accurate, we have our work cut out for us, and in many cases all we can do is board up our s before the hurricane hits”
”For purposes of this discussion, assu the truth Do we have any reason to disbelieve hi his own country? No, no reason at all”
Marvin showed total disdain for Foster His vehemence quieted the roo he did was establish a coht, then his boys have more doors and s in and out of the phone company computers than AT&T knows exist For all intents and purposes, they can do anything with the phone systen their own nuras, keep unlimited access lines and Operator Control If we do locate a conversation, they're using a very sophisticated encryption sche the sao, and if anyone had listened”
”We get the point, Marv,” Phil said just before Henry was about to say the saulate the cell phone location, but it takes tinize the need for an efficient distribution system In order for his plan to work, he had to insure that every computer in the country was infected”
”Thus the dGraph situation?” Quinton Chaan to look awake
”And the Lotus Viruses, and the Freedom software,” Henry said
”What about FTS-2000?” He was asking about the new multi-billion dollar voice and data communications network FTS stands for Federal Telecommunications Systeested Marv
”But we have no sure data yet We should ask Scott to ask Fos- ter”
”What could happen?”
”Worst case? The government shuts down for lack of interest and no dial tone”
”And these viruses?”
”According to Foster, they designed over 8,000 viruses and he assumes that all or most of them have been released over the last several years,” Marv said to a room full of raised eyebrows
”How bad is that?” asked Chambers
”Let's put it this way,” said Marv ”In the last 14 years, of the viruses that have been confirestation period, froht months And that one was discovered a couple of weeks after they were re- leased What Foster counted on was the fact that if software behaved normally, it wouldn't be suspect And if it becaht”
”I've heard that every computer is infected?”
”At the es of his dossier
”To continue, one of Foster's most important tools was the con- struction of road maps”
”Road maps?” questioned Phil
”Connections, how it all ties together How MILNET ties to INTERNET to DARPANET to DockMaster, then to the Universities”
Marv wove a complex picture of how millions of co He called this group Mappers The maps included the private nets, CoyBBS's to Ty to Foster, were very detailed The kind of co systeh the hacker bulletin boards and complied massive lists of passwords for co ours?” asked Quinton Chambers
”Quite definitely They kept files on the back doors, the trap doors and the system holes so they could enter computers unde- tected, or infect the files or erase themtake a look at Social Security and the IRS Martin?”