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Many who know the Nichols brothers, who grew up not far away in Lapeer, insist that they cannot be connected with the bombing. "I just can't believe they could have done something like this,'' says Mike Innes, 35, a dairy farmer who buys feed from Nichols and lives only a few miles away. Innes and others described James Nichols as a good, hardworking organic farmer in a ragged rural area where the work has got increasingly tough and the small crop and dairy farms are being gobbled up by larger owners. "Jim Nichols works as hard as anyone...
...general and his bodyguard hid in a flooded rice paddy, lying face up with eyes half shut and only noses poking above the murky water. That bought Ba less than 24 hours of freedom. He tried to get through the NVA lines by passing himself off as a farmer but was captured...
...fear was that the program, which Farmer intended to make widely available free of charge, would have the opposite effect. Computer experts were worried that it would get into the hands of computer intruders, who would use it as a burglar's tool kit to break the Internet wide open. The program is so point-and-click simple that it can turn second-rate hackers into efficient computer crackers...
SATAN certainly landed with a crash. Within minutes of its release, traffic started to pile up on the dozen or so computers around the world that Farmer had authorized as SATAN release sites. "Everyone was grabbing SATAN at once," says John Fisher, a computer-security specialist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of several sites that became overloaded in the crush. Two days after satan was unleashed, tens of thousands of copies had been downloaded...
That's little solace for Farmer, who until last month was employed as a security specialist at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, California. In March, when his bosses learned that he intended to unleash SATAN into the world, they gave him an ultimatum: publish if you want to perish. He published. Now he's on the market, looking...