Teledisk not working

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Wed Apr 4 22:58:09 2001

It was thus said that the Great Sellam Ismail once stated:
>
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Ross Archer wrote:
>
> > There's an excellent book (available for free reading on-line) called
> > the "Hacker Crackdown" which I'm just finishing. If it is to be
> > believed, when they do a computer crime raid, they seize EVERYTHING
> > that's even remotely computer-like, including mousepads, calculators,
> > tape players, music CDs and vinyl records (maybe they're data media
> > cleverly disguised as music or cassettes!), and probably that box of
> > cookies with a picture of a computer on the side too. I heard one raid
> > was particularly hard on Jelly Bellies...
>
> Oh yes, it is to be believed.
>
> These sorts of raids and confiscations were routine during the 80s and
> early 90s. Ever heard of "Operation Sundevil"? That was the last major
> nationwide "hacker"ocrackdown" in the 90s. I read "Hacker Crackdown"
> years ago and can't remember if it describes those particular raids.

  I think it does (if I recall; the book is home, I'm not). Also, Operation
Sundevil was responsible for the formation of the EFF [1].

  -spc (I think it's not quite as bad as it used to be ... )

[1] John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, was visited by the FBI
        around the time of Operation Sundevil [2] and he found the FBI agent
        nice, but completely overwhelmed by technology. After the visit he
        wrote "Crime and Puzzlement" (do a Google search to find it) about
        the visit, and shortly after it was published, he got together with
        Mitch Kapor and formed the EFF to keep law enforcement from
        trampling our rights in the electronic sphere.

[2] It was also during this time that Erik Bloodaxe, editor of
        "Phrack," was indicted, along with three other hackers, for
        the publication of an AT&T document about 911. AT&T claimed
        the document was worth over $79,000 (US, 1990) and would do
        irrepreble damage to the phone system, but the defense was
        able to show that the document in question was available to
        *anyone* for about $15 (US, 1990). AT&T quietly dropped the
        case.
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