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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7718431" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>To be fair, SJG <em>did </em>hire Loyd Blankenship as a consultant on GURPS Cyberpunk. AKA "The Mentor", the guy who wrote the Hacker Manifesto. You know, "This is our world now, the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud." He was a well-known and high-profile hacker at the time, a frequent contributor to Phrack among other hacking magazines and even ran his own BBS. </p><p></p><p>The Secret Service grabbed the Steve Jackson Games computers off a warrant to investigate him for (legitimate, or as much as 1990s computer laws were "legitimate") computer crimes. They found a bunch of references to hacking and a server for a BBS called "Illuminati". A group of lawyers in Austin said forget that and got together to defend Steve Jackson Games (eventually creating the EFF in the process) and basically, they had nothing concrete on Blankenship and absolutely no justification to take SJG's computers and files. Steve Jackson Games ended up with an around $850,000 settlement (sometimes reported to be in the millions, but it always seems to get bigger every time the story makes the rounds again).</p><p></p><p>The reporter said he was going to file a FOIA request for those documents next, which isn't really necessary. <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/SS/" target="_blank">Steve Jackson Games has them all on their website</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 7718431, member: 6669048"] To be fair, SJG [I]did [/I]hire Loyd Blankenship as a consultant on GURPS Cyberpunk. AKA "The Mentor", the guy who wrote the Hacker Manifesto. You know, "This is our world now, the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud." He was a well-known and high-profile hacker at the time, a frequent contributor to Phrack among other hacking magazines and even ran his own BBS. The Secret Service grabbed the Steve Jackson Games computers off a warrant to investigate him for (legitimate, or as much as 1990s computer laws were "legitimate") computer crimes. They found a bunch of references to hacking and a server for a BBS called "Illuminati". A group of lawyers in Austin said forget that and got together to defend Steve Jackson Games (eventually creating the EFF in the process) and basically, they had nothing concrete on Blankenship and absolutely no justification to take SJG's computers and files. Steve Jackson Games ended up with an around $850,000 settlement (sometimes reported to be in the millions, but it always seems to get bigger every time the story makes the rounds again). The reporter said he was going to file a FOIA request for those documents next, which isn't really necessary. [URL="http://www.sjgames.com/SS/"]Steve Jackson Games has them all on their website[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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