In a conversation we had while I was living in Denver, Lewis told me that Joe had given him an account on a Sun workstation he had at home. Lewis passed the credentials along to me, with a request. He was hoping I could get root on Joe’s workstation and then tell him how I got in, so he could needle Joe about it. That sounded to me like an interesting opportunity: since Joe was a contractor for Sun Microsystems, he very likely had the ability to remotely access the company’s network, which might be a way for me to hack into Sun.