Bruce Sterling wrote about the raid as part of his book "The Hacker Crackdown". As far as I know, the sting against SJG "Cyberpunk" was part of Operation Sundev

Bruce Sterling wrote about the raid as part of his book "The Hacker Crackdown". As far as I know, the sting against SJG "Cyberpunk" was part of Operation Sundevil, a larger-scale federal effort to suppress this vaguely public 911 document that a phone phreak got his hands on. Here's a link to the text: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part2.html http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part2.html The author of the SJG book, Loyd Blankenship, was involved in the transmission and storage of the 911 documents that the Secret Service was all fired up about. He ran the Steve Jackson Illuminati BBS. My favorite part of the Hacker Crackdown book is when Sterling talks about how Steve Jackson couldn't convince the investigators that what he'd written was a game. They kept insisting it was real. EDIT: From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil "The raid on Steve Jackson Games, which led to the court case Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, is often attributed to Operation Sundevil, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation states that it is unrelated and cites this attribution as a media error." Whoops! My bad.