DEC’s network engineers could see all along that lots of large files were being transferred, but they couldn’t figure out how to stop it. Our unrelenting assault had them convinced that they were under some kind of corporate espionage attack by international mercenaries who’d been hired to steal their flagship technology. We read their theories about us in their emails. It was clearly driving them crazy. I could always log on to see how far they were getting and what they were going to try next. We did our best to keep them chasing red herrings along the way. Because we had full access to Easynet, we could dial in from the United Kingdom, and other countries throughout the world. They couldn’t identify our entry points because we were constantly changing them.