I met Maxfield briefly, at a talk he was doing at my college, probably sometime around '87 or '88. He certainly wasn't trying to stay off the radar then, he was

I met Maxfield briefly, at a talk he was doing at my college, probably sometime around '87 or '88. He certainly wasn't trying to stay off the radar then, he was inflating his role in all of this quite a lot. As it happens, I was attending that talk along with one member of the Inner Circle (not named in this article), as well as one other even more respected hacker, BIOC Agent 003. Not that I'm an uber-hacker myself - my association with them was mostly a matter of coincidence. Maxfield told a number of anecdotes about famous hacks and takedowns, like the famous Fargo 4A phone switch thing. Having some knowledge of these events from my friends, it was clear that he was stretching the truth to inflate his own importance. My friends called him out on this, and I remember much of the rest of the talk being Q&A with the audience directing questions mostly at my friends rather than to Maxfield.