Stone Dog said:
I know this one. I'll dig up a link for it, but the secret service thought that their "GURPS Cyberpunk" was a manual for computer crime and confiscated just about everything in the SJG office. Computers, hard copies of a great deal of things and never gave it back.
Lemme go see if there is a handy link I can find.
It's important to put this event in context.
I have read
The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling (a science-fiction author). It is a fascinating work that goes back to the origins ot telecommunications up until today, from the first telegraphs (AT&T) to today, and the hacker phenomena during that timeline. Really cool. I learned there for the first time about LOD, Captain Crunch, Phone Phreaking, and other stuff.
However, that book goes into detail about the operation
Sundevil of 1990 by the SS (Secret Services). Long story short, they were trying to get some guys of LOD (Legion of Doom, a hacker gang) and mistakenly busted GURPS Cyberpunk. SJG was the one entity the most thoroughly attacked by
Sundevil, with little damage to real hackers. From then on, the SS got a reputation of being morons that don't know how to deal with the hacker problem properly.
I have yet to learn that they improved in that field...
Anyone can read that book
online. Ironically enough, Sterling decided to have his book available for download for free. I remember back in my BBS'ing days, I DL'ed it, and read it in a DOS window through the EDIT function.
