"Or so everybody thought. Then some big-dome scientists figured something out. They worked for one of the big corps back then—3M, or 4F, or something like that, I think it was. They figured out there was a way to read fiber-optic communication. You could read it from a distance, you could even diddle a few bits here and there, change the information that’s going through the light pipe." He chuckled. "’Course, it wasn’t too practical. From what I hear, it took two Cray supercomputers, big electronic brains, the biggest they’d made to that time, plus a semi-trailer full of other high-tech drek, plus a fragging platoon of big-domes to run it all. I don’t know how it works. I’m no technoweenie. But, frag if it didn’t work."