Mendax phoned Trax and asked if there was any way they could manipulate the exchange in order to interrupt the call. There wasn't.
`Trax, you're the master phreaker,' Mendax pleaded. `Do something.
Interrupt the connection. Disconnect him.'
`Can't be done. He's on a step-by-step telephone exchange. There's nothing we can do.'
Nothing? One of Australia's best hacker-phreaker teams couldn't break one telephone call. They could take control of whole telephone exchanges but they couldn't interrupt one lousy phone call. Jesus.
Several hours later, Mendax was able to get through to his fellow IS hacker. It was an abrupt greeting.
`Just tell me one thing. Tell me you haven't been in NorTel today?'
There was a long pause before Prime Suspect answered.
`I have been in NorTel today.'
CHAPTER 9 — Operation Weather.
The world is crashing down on me tonight; The walls are closing in on me tonight.