Every time Neill sent a report of a security hole to Dave Hutchins at DEC, the email would be redirected to me (and only me). I would soak up every detail and then send back a "thank-you" message that would appear to have been sent by Hutchins. The beauty of this particular hack—known as a "man-in-the-middle" attack—was that the real Hutchins, and DEC, would never receive the information Neill sent them. This was so exciting because it meant, in turn, that DEC would not be fixing the holes anytime soon, since the developers wouldn’t know about the problems—at least not from Neill.