Phate

Wyatt Gillette, a cybergenius who's never used his phenomenal talent for evil, is sitting in a California jail doing time for a few harmless computer capers when he gets a temporary reprieve -- a chance to help the Computer Crimes Unit of the state police nail a cracker (a criminally inclined hacker) called Phate who's using his ingenious program, Trapdoor, to lure innocent victims to their death by infiltrating their computers.

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Inc. The spaces overlooked the back parking lot of Vesta's Grill in Cupertino where Jon Holloway, aka Phate, had social engineered Lara Gibson to her death.

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The guard pointed to a row of empty parking spaces in the lot behind the three-story building occupied by Internet Marketing Solutions Unlimited, Inc. The spaces overlooked the back parking lot of Vesta’s Grill in Cupertino where Jon Holloway, aka Phate, had social engineered Lara Gibson to her death.

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The survey listed Mobile America as number one and the team assumed that Phate would follow Shawn's recommendation.

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Bishop asked how they could track down Phate now that they knew he was a customer, though probably an illegal one.

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He then sent a copy of the Mailblocker virus to Vlast in Bulgaria and, to Phate, Gillette s own version of Backdoor-G.

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His opinion now was that you couldn't have too many allies, or too much flrepower, when you were up against perps like Phate and Shawn.

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If that happened Phate would immediately shut down his machine and create a new Internet service provider and e-mail address.

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Phate, of course, would never Kill his adversaries in such an inelegant way.

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A download, however, would be far easier for Phate to notice.

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