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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trainz" data-source="post: 1481276" data-attributes="member: 2122">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 <a href="http://www.chriswaltrip.com/sterling/hackcrck.html" target="_blank">online</a>. 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.</blockquote>