Similar situation happened to me back in the 80's when I was just a nerdy kid with a Commodore 64. I used to meet up weekly with a handful of other C64 nerds th

Similar situation happened to me back in the 80's when I was just a nerdy kid with a Commodore 64. I used to meet up weekly with a handful of other C64 nerds that all came together through a popular, local BBS. (I think one of the guys ran the BBS.) One day, riding home on my bicycle, a car stopped me, two guys got out and told me they were with the FBI, then started asking questions about the group. I was told to always cooperate with authority, and they were very friendly (they even complimented my cool Mongoose BMX bike!), so I just went along. They asked a lot of questions about others in the group, and sometimes about others' parents, which was weird - I didn't even know what my own parents did for a living back then! LOL Anyway, next week, same thing. Same car, same spot around the corner from my house, same guys, same questions about people in the group, and the same responses from me. This went on for a few weeks when I finally told my mom about it. Next week: no car, no FBI guys, no questions. I figured they got what they wanted or they finally realized I didn't know my ass from my elbow. Many years later, I talked to my mother about it. I didn't know it back then, but she was PISSED. She told me she called about a dozen FBI offices and screamed at each person she talked to. She said they were generally dismissive until she informed them that her college friend was a top reporter for the local newspaper (totally false, my mom didn't even go to college). Also many years later, I talked to another guy from the group and discovered the exact same thing happened to him. Same FBI, same around-the-corner from his house, same questions, and same situation with his mom getting PO'ed when she found out (we all grew up in single-parent homes). The FBI guys even complimented him on his BMX bike, too, which is total BS because mine was way better. His was some lame knock-off from Sears or something. Mine was a Mongoose, man!!! This all happened after the movie 'War Games' hit theaters and became sort of popular. The rumor has been that people were so spooked by the movie that thousands of FBI agents were dispatched across the country to gather intel, and to determine if it was really possible that some pimple-faced kid could start a nuclear war with a home computer and a 300-baud modem. So yeah, if you get approached by the FBI, don't talk to them. Just have your mom go scream at them.