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To: duncan moyer who wrote (1744)	6/3/2000 3:15:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

Duncan, we have caller ID, but overseas numbers and some others just show up as zeroes. Perhaps there is a way of calling back, but I'm not aware of it. My guess is it was a private hacker hacking. 10pm or later on Memorial Day would NOT be the time officials are working. I don't think floppy drives run by themselves. Here, people can make anonymous calls by dialing a number before they dial [they, and unlisted numbers, show up on our caller ID as 'anonymous call']. The computer is still running, so it was obviously not a totally destructive person [if it wasn't just a ghost spinning up the drives for fun]. Maybe it's a way of stealing credit card numbers or other information. My computer innards are quite boring so I doubt there's a big problem. Bank account passwords don't live in the computer [as far as I know]. I guess it's just one of those things. As you say, I'm sure personal computers are open books to all the intelligence agencies. Mqurice