Steven Lynch was first introduced to the joys of hunting down hackers in MIT in 1989. While working in the University's IT department he came across Australia's very own Leftist and Urvile, as they took control of the institutions servers and used them to poke holes in systems on the other side of the world.. . .
Steven Lynch was first introduced to the joys of hunting down hackers in MIT in 1989. While working in the University's IT department he came across Australia's very own Leftist and Urvile, as they took control of the institutions servers and used them to poke holes in systems on the other side of the world.

Phoenix and Electron were eventually tracked down to a flat in Melbourne, but not before Lynch spent countless hours following their clandestine progress through unsuspecting networks.

"We became aware they were using machines in the IT department to hack into machines in the US," Lynch said. "They were setting up back doors in the computers they hacked so they could get back in again later."

Lynch can't recall what alerted the university's IT department to the suspicious goings on within the university network. Nonetheless when asked by the police to keep an eye on the character's movements, he first had to figure out how to monitor their progress without giving the game away.

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