The mass media will kill BBSing as we know it, yet they'll never stand trial for the murder. Society will applaud them for slaying the evil beast of bulletin boards. A moniker the computing community once wore with pride now brands you as a teenage geek who writes viruses and breaks into defense computers. BBSing may even corner you into a murder rap.
Rumors abound right now about a cult murder in Phoenix supposedly linked to a bulletin board.
A satanic cult, of course. Toss in the fact the guys logged onto bulletin boards - whoah, you've got one hell of a murder story. His computer virus creation killed two patients who relied on the medical analysis of an infected program. Naturally, BBS users helped the hacker write his virus, and he infected the medical computer via modem. The Mafia 's talons dig deep here, the reporter grimly notes .