Re: 1 March 1990: U.S. Secret Service Raids Austin's Steve Jackson Ga mes

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

For what its worth, I wanted to send along this message from
Jon Lebkowsy, who was quite involved in the creation of the EFF,
and co-founded the Austin-EFF. He's a big shot around these parts. :-)

- ferg

p.s. BTW, this URk is very much worth reading, if you are truly
curious of the creation forces around the EFF:

 http://www.weblogsky.com/technopolitics.htm

Also, some of these folks will be here in Austin for SXSW... including
Steve Jackson.

[snip]

-- Jon Lebkowsky <jonl () polycot com> wrote:

Yeah, tempus fugit! Or "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas."

I wrote an EFF history for the now-defunct Australian slick 21C: http://www.weblogsky.com/technopolitics.htm

~ Jon

Fergie wrote:

> Well, I figured it was worth mentioning. :-)
>
> It is part of our history now, and one worth remembering.
>
> - ferg
>
> ps. 16 years has gone by damned fast, huh? ;-)
>
>
> -- Jon Lebkowsky <jonl () polycot com> wrote:
>
> You're right, it wasn't part of Operation Sundevil, which was Gail 
> Thackeray's operation. She was in Arizona; the SJ Games raid was 
> conducted Secret Service's Chicago unit and Chicago prosecutor Bill 
> Cook, who was basically chasing the trail of a Bell South document 
> purloined by Len Rose and published on Phrack, a copy of which was sent 
> to Loyd Blankenship, and SJ Games employee. 
>
> Fergie was also slightly incorrect in saying that the Steve Jackson case 
> resulted in the formation of the EFF.  EFF formation was already in 
> process when the raid occurred, and was driven in part by a conversation 
> with hackers on the WELL that John Barlow helped organize, a 
> transcription of which was published in Harper's. Barlow had a visit 
> from the FBI afterward, and realized that they didn't understand 
> technology well enough to make informed decisions about "computer 
> crime."  He and Mitch Kapor talked it over, and that led to the birth of 
> the EFF.  The Jackson case was just fortuitous in that it happened as 
> this was going on, and was the perfect foundation case for EFF.
>
> A couple of months after EFF formed, Steve suggested a chapter in 
> Austin, which led to the formation of EFF-Austin.  We incorporated 
> separately, and EFF chose not to have chapters, so we just became our 
> own thing... a long story in itself.
>
> ~ Jon
>
> kinnaman () Io Com wrote:
>  
>
> > Although Wikipedia, and the media, say it
> > was part of "Operation Sun Devil," Steve
> > Jackson says otherwise:
> >
> > http://www.sjgames.com/SS/topten.html
> >
> > As I understand it, the little dial-up BBS
> > contained e-mail of BBS members, and by
> > taking the e-mail, the Secret Service did
> > naughty, and paid for it nicely, once the
> > judge was shown the law on the matter.
> >
> > Other Myths
> >
> > I always tell folks that the cash to start IO.COM
> > came from the Secret Service - even though I
> > have no idea if that's really what the Jackson
> > family did with the $$$ federal payment. <grin>
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil
> >
> >
> >    
>
>
> [snip]
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> ferg's tech blog:  http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
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~Pema Chodron

[snip]


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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