And who was helping Lottor with this project? Surprise: of all people, it was Tsutomu Shimomura, that computer security expert with a big reputation and a bigger ego, who worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Odd: at the time, Lottor was under Federal indictment in the Kevin Poulsen case, and yet here he was, getting help from a computer security expert who did contract work for the government . What was that about?