From messages I had been reading, I knew that Clift had long craved a job at DEC; maybe that could be my opening. I duped British Telecom into giving me his unlisted home telephone number and called him, introducing myself as Derrell Piper, the name of an actual Digital software engineer in VMS Development. I told him, "We’ve got a hiring freeze right now, but despite that we may be hiring some security engineers. Your name came up because you’ve been so helpful in finding security vulnerabilities and sharing them with us." And I went on to talk to him about some DEC manuals I knew he wanted.