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What was the cause?

• evgen 10y ago
  Loyd was a bit of a hacker (</understatement>) and was working with SJG to write a cyberpunk GURPS module. As a part of operation sun devil the secret service raided a bunch of hackers, including Loyd. When they found the material related to the game and asked about it he mentioned that he was writing a game for this company down the road. The agents headed over, basically broke in, and seized a ton of gear including an Amiga that was running a BBS and also held a bunch of printing files and markup for the game. The story was later changed to them thinking that the BBS might have had a backdoor to a hacker board, but this was complete BS and the collection of what was seized showed that the agents on the scene had no idea what they were doing.
  • mcguire 10y ago
    You missed the part about GURPS Cyberpunk being a "hacker manual". Ah, Operation Sundevil.