After searching, archiving, and compressing, I needed a place to store the code for safekeeping. No problem: I already had root access to every server at the Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link, commonly known as "the Well." Started by Stewart Brand and a partner, the Well had as its users a who’s who of the Internet, but the celebrity status of the site didn’t matter to me at all. My only concern was whether there was enough disk space and whether I could hide the files well enough that the system admins wouldn’t notice them. In fact, I had been spending lots of time on the site. A few days after John Markoff’s front-page New York Times story appeared, I discovered he had an account on the Well. An easy target: I had been reading his emails ever since, searching for anything related to me.