It turned out that Agent Baxter was interested in the "nuPrometheus League," a shadowy conspiracy that had been sending morsels of Apple Computer's highly guarded source code for the Macintosh computer - the copyrighted set of instructions governing the look and operation of the screen - to various computer-world luminaries. might think those provocative words, but as soon as Agent Baxter arrived at the door with a long list of questions scrawled on his clipboard about what he called the "New Prosthesis League," Barlow knew that all bets were off. It is a moral obligation." Barlow saw as how the F.B.I. "It isn't merely permissible to break into the White House computer system. "Americans who believe in democracy have little choice but to shred the barricades of secrecy at every opportunity," Barlow, 43 years old, wrote in an excitable moment. He just assumed that the Feds wanted to talk to him about some comments he had recently made in a Harper's Magazine forum on computer cracking - obtaining illegal access to giant computer networks over the telephone - comments that the editors had seen fit to put on the cover. Baxter was polite, but he wouldn't explain what the bureau wanted over the phone. But as a sometime writer and electronic gadfly who has been, among other things, a cattle rancher, Republican county chairman and, for 20 years, a lyricist for the rock band the Grateful Dead, he wasn't exactly surprised. WHEN JOHN PERRY BARLOW picked up the phone at his home in Pinedale, Wyo., on a sunny morning last May, the last thing he expected was a call from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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