Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide United States Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities". Along with the Chicago Task Force and the Arizona Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau, they conducted raids in Austin, Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Tucson, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco. This article is about the year. ... USSS redirects here. ... Hacker is a term used to describe people who create and modify computer software and computer hardware. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Official languages English Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano (D) Senators John McCain (R) Jon Kyl (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 6th 295,254 km² 0. ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ... Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: www. ... Cincinnati is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States that lies on the Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton CountyGR6. ... The Detroit skyline at night as seen from Canada Nickname: The Motor City, Motown Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: http://www. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ángeles) is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... Downtown Miami as seen from Watson Island Nickname: The Magic City, The American Riviera, The Sixth Borough Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: http://www. ... State nickname: The Empire State Official languages English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Clinton (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 13. ... Skyline of downtown Newark as seen from the Newark Bay Bridge. ... Phoenix was incorporated as a city on February 5, 1881. ... City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ... Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States of America. ... Tucson redirects here, for the vehicle by Hyundai Motor Company, see Hyundai Tucson Tucson (pronounced ) is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, located 135 miles (217 km) southeast of Phoenix. ... San Diego at sunset, 2001 Nickname: Americas Finest City, Annapolis West Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: http://www. ... Nickname: Capital of Silicon Valley Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: http://www. ... San Franciscos famous fog and famous Golden Gate Bridge. ...

Much of Operation Sundevil was targeted at credit card thieves and telephone abusers. Other parts of the operation involved the underground ezine Phrack, which had published the contents of a proprietary text file, stolen from Bell South, containing information about the E911 emergency response system. Credit cards A credit card system is a type of retail transaction settlement and credit system, named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. ... The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... An underground ezine is a publication without defined periodicity that discusses any subject which the publisher deems interesting or newsworthy. ... Phrack is an underground ezine made by and for hackers that has been around since November 17, 1985. ... Everyday instance of theft: the bike which fits on this wheel has disappeared Theft (also known as stealing) is in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ... BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS) is a U.S. telecommunications company based in Atlanta, Georgia. ... This article may be confusing for some readers, and should be edited to be clearer. ...

The Cyberpunk Bust

Main article: GURPS Cyberpunk

The factual accuracy of part of this article is disputed. The dispute is about whether the SJG raid was part of Sundevil; see http://www.sjgames.com/SS/topten.html. Written by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games in 1995, GURPS Cyberpunk is a sourcebook for a cyberpunk-themed role-playing game based in a fictional, near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

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The best known Operation Sundevil raid, though in actuality not part of the operation proper, targeted the offices of role-playing game company Steve Jackson Games, and started a persistent legend that the government had raided the company in order to confiscate their upcoming role-playing sourcebook called GURPS Cyberpunk, fearing that the fictional game manual was actually a "handbook for computer crime". In what became a benchmark case for electronic civil-liberties, Steve Jackson Games sued the Secret Service for their seizure of computers from the company, including the one that hosted the Illuminati BBS - and won. A federal court awarded damages and attorneys' fees to the game company, ruling that the raid had been careless, illegal, and completely unjustified. It was the first step toward establishing that online speech is entitled to First Amendment protection, and specifically, that law-enforcement agents can't seize and hold a BBS with impunity. A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... Steve Jackson Games (SJG) is a game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. ... Written by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games in 1995, GURPS Cyberpunk is a sourcebook for a cyberpunk-themed role-playing game based in a fictional, near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer. ... Computer Crime, E-Crime, Hi-Tech Crime or Electronic Crime is a crime in which a computer plays an essential part. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ...

References

• Sterling, Bruce (1993). The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier. Bantam Books. ISBN 055356370X. [1]

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier is a book written by science fiction writer Bruce Sterling in 1992. ...

External links

• On-line and Out-of-Bounds
• EFF "Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service Case Archive"
• Bruce Sterling book about the Bell South documents