[678] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Must Privatization Come As a Blank Check?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John S. Quarterman)
Sat May 11 16:21:06 1991
From: jsq@tic.com (John S. Quarterman)
To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Cc: jsq@tic.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 08 May 91 00:12:38 -0500.
Date: Sat, 11 May 91 15:00:12 -0500
> Operation Sun Devil was the Secret Service. One of their targets,
> Steve Jackson, has just (1 May) filed a civil lawsuit against them
> and several individuals.
>Was this when they stole his Cyberpunk notes? I think he said (when
>the book eventually came out) that was the FBI...
No.
On March 1, 1990, the United States Secret Service nearly
destroyed Steve Jackson Games (SJG), an award-winning publishing
business in Austin, Texas.
In an early morning raid with an unlawful and
unconstitutional warrant, agents of the Secret Service conducted a
search of the SJG office. When they left they took a manuscript
being prepared for publication, private electronic mail, and several
computers, including the hardware and software of the SJG Computer
Bulletin Board System. Yet Jackson and his business were not only
innocent of any crime, but never suspects in the first place. The
raid had been staged on the unfounded suspicion that somewhere in
Jackson's office there "might be" a document compromising the
security of the 911 telephone system.
--EFFector Online #1.04 (May 1, 1991),
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. <eff@eff.org>.
See also the Periscope section of the current issue of Newsweek
(if you can ignore the stupid headline).
Thanks,
John
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John S. Quarterman
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701 Brazos, Suite 500 jsq@tic.com
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