pete@nyet.UUCP (Pete Hardie) (05/28/90)
In article <517@hhb.UUCP> bvk@hhb.UUCP (Brett Kuehner) writes: >The Secret Service seems to be out of control in this "roundup". Among >other things, they raided Steve Jackson Games (makers of NON-computer >role playing games such as GURPS, Car Wars, and Illuminati) on March 1st. The >Secret Service confiscated their computers, searched their warehouse, >and took all materials (printed and electronic) relating to >"GURPS: Cyberpunk", a book of rules for extending the GURPS universe >to include Neuromancer-type hacking. The Secret Service gave no >explanation, except that this was "part of an ongoing investigation". From things posted on the net, an employee of SJG was in some way associated with the group that broke into the AT&T 911 system somewhere and stole its source code. The connection was tenous at best, from what I've seen posted, but there *was* some logic behind it. Apparently, the SS took the machine the SJG-BBS was on, ssuspecting it of being one of the 'underground' phreakers BBSs, along with several other computers and files. -- Pete Hardie mail: ...!emory!stiatl!slammer!nyet!pete "Well, Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, And Lightness has a call that's hard to hear" -- Indigo Girls