After a little digging around, I learned that Hicom was a public-access system and that anyone could apply for an account. Once I was set up with my own account, I exploited a security hole that Neill evidently didn’t know about, gaining full control of the system, with the same rights and privileges as a system administrator. I was very excited but didn’t anticipate that I would find much, since I doubted he would be careless enough to send DEC his security findings from a public system.