I discovered a VMS system with a node-name of "Snoopy." After poking around for a bit, I discovered that Snoopy was already logged in to a privileged account, giving me full access to the system. The temptation was too great. Even though Telenet people were in and out of the offices twenty-four hours a day, I sat down at the terminal and started to explore, looking at scripts and third-party applications to figure out what tools they had and how those tools could be used to monitor the network. Within a very short time, I figured out how to eavesdrop on customer network traffic. Then it hit me. The node had been named Snoopy because it allowed the technicians to monitor traffic on customer networks: it allowed them to snoop.