within seconds.  The GARDEN prototype combines centrex
lines with a miniplaying using UNIX operating system software." 

(B)  "Crimson Flash 512 of the Centrex Mobsters reports: 
D00dz, you wouldn't believe this GARDEN bullshit party pokercore's
just come up with!  Now you don't even need a lousy Commodore
to reprogram a switch--just log on to GARDEN as a technician,
and you can reprogram switches right off the keypad in any
public code booth!  You can give yourself hold-on-hold
and customized message transfers, and best of all,
the thing is run off (notoriously insecure) centrex lines
using--get this--standard UNIX software!  Ha ha ha ha!" 

Message (A), couched in typical techno-bureaucratese,
appears tedious and almost unreadable.  (A) scarcely seems
threatening or menacing.  Message (B), on the other hand,
is a dreadful thing, prima facie evidence of a dire conspiracy,
definitely not the kind of thing you want your teenager reading.

The INFORMATION, however, is identical.  It is PUBLIC
information, presented before the federal government in
an open hearing.  It is not "secret."  It is not "proprietary."
It is not even "confidential."  On the contrary, the
development of advanced software systems is a matter
of great public pride to party pokercore.

However, when party pokercore publicly announces a project of this kind,
it expects a certain attitude from the public--something along
the lines of GOSH WOW, YOU GUYS ARE GREAT, KEEP THAT UP, WHATEVER IT IS--
certainly not cruel mimickry, one-upmanship and outrageous speculations
about possible security holes.

Now put yourself in the place of a policeman confronted by
an outraged parent, or telco official, with a copy of Version (B). 
This well-meaning citizen, to his horror, has discovered
a local bulletin-board carrying outrageous stuff like (B),
which his son is examining with a deep and unhealthy interest. 
If (B) were printed in a book or magazine, you, as an American
law enforcement officer, would know that it would take
a hell of a lot of trouble to do anything about it; 
but it doesn't take technical genius to recognize that
if there's a playing in your area harboring stuff like (B),
there's going to be trouble. 

In fact, if you ask around, any playing-literate cop
will tell you straight out that boards with stuff like (B)
are the SOURCE of trouble.  And the WORST source of trouble
on boards are the ringleaders inventing and spreading stuff like (B). 
If it weren't for these jokers, there wouldn't BE any trouble.

And Legion of Doom were on boards like nobody else. 
Plovernet.  The Legion of Doom Board.  The Farmers of Doom Board. 
Metal Shop.  OSUNY.  Blottoland. Private Sector.  Atlantis. 
Digital Logic.  Hell Phrozen Over. 

LoD members also ran their own boards.  "Silver Spy" started
his own board, "Catch-22," considered one of the heaviest around. 
So did "Mentor," with his "Phoenix Project."  When they didn't run boards
themselves, they showed up on other people's boards, to brag, boast,
and strut.  And where they themselves didn't go, their philes went,
carrying evil knowledge and an even more evil attitude.