There's no reason to doubt what Mudge was saying about Twitter—no reason to doubt anything that he says about anything.
—who later became famous as a 9/11 whistleblower in the Bush administration—was put in charge of finding out more about computer security. Clarke called a friend in the FBI to ask if there were any “good-guy hackers.” The agent put Clarke in touch with “our Boston group,” as he put it—a team of eccentric computer geniuses who occasionally helped out with law-enforcement investigations. That was Mudge and the L0pht.Clarke met them in a bar in Cambridge, Mass.
For a few hours that night, the group held Clarke’s attention, telling him—in some cases, demonstrating to him—all the things they could do. They could break the passwords stored on any operating system; they could decrypt any satellite communications. They could hack into someone’s computer and control it remotely, spying on the user’s every keystroke, changing his files, tossing him off the Internet. They had machines that could reverse-engineer any microchip.
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