Examining the systems I had been using at USC, I found that a monitoring program had been installed to spy on my activities, and I was even able to identify the USC system administrator who had set it up, a guy named Asbed Bedrossian. Reasoning that one good spy deserved another, I located the host where he and other USC system administrators received their email— sol.usc.edu —got root access, and searched Asbed’s mail, in particular for the term FBI . I came upon this: