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***** THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY MODEM *****
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Molly was gazing out the window of her Dallas road apartment.
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Her mind was not really on the project she was working on. It was far
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away on the bridge of a freighter heading out the straits to the open
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ocean. RING-RING-RING!! The phone startled her back to reality.
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Joyce was on the phone and was almost to the point of tears.
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Molly had met Joyce about six months ago at a Big Blue computer
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club meeting and the two had hit it off from the start. Joyce needed
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a bit of help getting her new XT up and running and Molly was glad
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to be of assistance. So many of the yuppies these days seemed
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computing illiterate.
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"Some rotten bastard stole my password" sobbed Joyce.
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"I just got my Visa bill today and Compuserve says I owe them
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nine hundred dollars!! What am I going to do?"
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Molly tried to remain calm. "The first thing you do is change
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your password before the bill goes any higher. And pick something
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difficult to crack like a random mix of letters and numbers."
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"By the way what sort of password did you use?" Joyce was getting
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a little calmer by now. "I thought it was a good one and rather
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clever ....... PERRIER$VOLVO. " Molly muttered "Just what you would
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expect from a yuppie."
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Later after Molly had changed her own password from
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BAGEL*SNARF to a mix of lotto numbers and her dogs name she sat
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thinking. A few months ago she had seen a message on an
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American bulletin board. It was left by some nerd hacker who
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bragged he could hack into any system alive and even figure out
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peoples passwords from their conversations. Molly vaguely recalled
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that this evil fiend used the name VonCriptic. Something had to
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be done before VonCriptic used his evil software to go after
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Victoria's Farwest bulletin board. Farwest was dear to Molly's
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heart, it had kept her from wasting her time and money in
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singles bars. That settled it Molly decided to out hack
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VonCriptic. Nothing like fighting fire with fire. The only
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problem Molly thought was "my old XT may not be up to a fire
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fight with VonCriptic!!! Maybe my old buddy Joe Truckk can
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lend me one of his high power machines? Besides he still
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owes me one for that wild weekend at Harrison Hot Springs."
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Joe Truckk had left Vancouver a couple of years ago
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looking for warmer climes. He ended up in California at the
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Lawrence Livermore labs working on ultra powerful hardware
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for the SDI program. He was worth a try. Molly dialed up
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Compuserve and left Joe some E-mail detailing the problems
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Joyce had and who she suspected was behind it. Late that
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night Molly logged back on and found Joes reply waiting.
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"Hi Molly how is Victoria these days. No problem
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with the Hardware you need. I've got a prototype here that
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we call the BEAST. Fifty meg of memory and a clock speed
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of half a giga hertz. The unit I'm sending you has a few
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bugs so we can't use it. Should not affect your project
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unless you want to calculate PI to the last decimal place
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or fire a particle beam weapon. It's also hardened to one
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mega rad of radiation. Am sending it up to you via air
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freight. Should be there tomorrow morning. Have FUN."
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"Sure nice to have friends like Joe on your side,
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would hate to have him as an enemy" thought Molly as she
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climbed into bed. The next morning dawned cool and clear
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in usual Victoria fashion. Molly dressed had a quick cup of
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coffee and drove out to the airport near Pat Bay. The clerk
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at Air Canada Freight gave her the way bills and other papers
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and directed her to Canada Customs. At the customs desk the
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officer looked at her papers consulted his manual and
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stamped the forms DUTY FREE ITEM. Molly was relieved, she
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usually had a hassle with customs people and paid the highest
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duty. It was not until she picked up the package that she
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noticed that Joe had written as contents "MINERAL SPECIMENS"
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"NO COMMERCIAL VALUE". It was just like Joe to call silicone
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chips "mineral specimens." Actually quite accurate thought
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Molly. When Molly got back to her apartment she did what
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every true computer user does with a new piece of equipment.
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She took the case off! There right in the middle was the
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heart of the most powerful computer she had ever seen.
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The main CPU was a black cube about three inch's on each
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side. Every edge had about a hundred connections coming
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out. And right on top in small white numbers 80666 !!!
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The number of the BEAST. Molly had a quick look at a few
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of the other strange devices inside the case. Many had
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strands of fiber optic material sticking out. Heady stuff!
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Molly closed the case tightened the screws and slid it under
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the bed. Now for a peek at the manual......................
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Would Molly have been more concerned if she had known that
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at that very minute stepping off a plane in Vancouver were
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the infamous software pirate Doctor Node and his oriental
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henchman Baud Job.
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What will happen to Molly Modem will she be able to use the
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BEAST to zap VonCriptic? And what of Doctor Node and Baud Job.
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Will they try to steal the 80666 processor and sell it to
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Toshiba for a ton of platinum???
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STAY TUNED FOR THE SECOND EPISODE OF
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*****THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY MODEM*****
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Another file downloaded from: NIRVANAnet(tm)
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& the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
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Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
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Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
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realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
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Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102
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Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
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arcane knowledge, political extremism, diversive sexuality,
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insane speculation, and wild rumours. ALL-TEXT BBS SYSTEMS.
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Full access for first-time callers. We don't want to know who you are,
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where you live, or what your phone number is. We are not Big Brother.
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"Raw Data for Raw Nerves"
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