Just a few weeks after I was arrested, FBI Special Agent Kathleen Carson had been working to come up with these greatly exaggerated loss numbers. An internal Sun Microsystems memo showed she had told Lee Patch, vice president of Sun’s Legal Department, that the Solaris source code I had copied could be valued at $80 million, which would have called for the harshest sentence for fraud under the Federal sentencing guidelines—so it doesn’t take a genius to figure out how she came up with that number. When she asked Sun to put a dollar value on the loss associated with the break-in, she advised that the figures should be based on the value of the source code.