title: Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture
author: Jennifer Wallis
description: Jennifer Wallis is a historian and author, currently living in Oxford, UK. She is a fan of power electronics and has previously worked with noise act Hate-Male.
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  DISCLAIMER
  
  
  This is a work of fiction, peopled by and involving foreign and domestic
  companies, institutions, organizations, and activities—private, public, and
  government—that are products of the author’s imagination. Where actual names
  appear, they are used fictitiously and do not necessarily depict their actual
  conduct or purpose.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  
  “What’s that noise?” Bill Leitz whispered.
  
  
  I heard it too. We killed the miner’s head lamps we wore on our heads and sat
  in the darkness listening. Tiny noises, like a mouse playing with something
  metal. Low, just barely audible.
  
  
  It was two in the morning in Tallinn, Estonia, and Bill Leitz and I were
  inside a branch of the Bank of Scandinavia working on their server. This
  little branch only had the one. We were modifying it so that a copy of every
  transaction that went through it also went via internet to Langley, Virginia,
  back in the good ol’ USA.
  
  
  But that noise! There it was again.
  
  
  “Maybe we 