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	Argumentative Persuasive Essays - Internet Hackers
		"Operation Sundevil" was a crackdown on the traditional hackers of the digital underground.
		"Operation Sundevil" was the largest crackdown in history.
		With operations like "Operation Sundevil", the hacker crackdown has begun and it is long overdue.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=16172 (1552 words)

	Operation Sundevil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities".
		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.
		The best known Operation Sundevil raid 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".
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/o/op/operation_sundevil.html (177 words)

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		Operation Datastream Recently released information reveals that a sixteen-year-old computer hacker from Britain was able to infiltrate United States Department of Defense computer systems for seven months without being detected.
		Operation Sundevil Law enforcement agencies had already begun to focus their attack on the digital underground when Operation Sundevil was initiated, but it was by far the largest clamp down on computer crime in the United States.
		The focus of Operation Sundevil was the hackers' system of information distribution which consisted of hundreds of underground computer systems that housed information on how to break into computer systems, files stolen from major U.S. corporations, and files that contained credit card access numbers used to commit credit fraud.
	members.tripod.com /phantomhangout/nonfic/devostthesis.htm (18086 words)

	Articles - Operation Sundevil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		'''Operation Sundevil''' was a [[1990]] nation-wide [[United States Secret Service]] crackdown on "illegal computer [[hackerhacking]] activities".
		Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide United States Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities".
		As Operation Sundevil was first appearing in the media, an unrelated raid occurred at the offices of role-playing game company Steve Jackson Games.
	www.scannera.com /articles/Operation_Sundevil (410 words)

	Operation Sundevil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide United States Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities".
		Media and histories often relate the event as part of Operation Sundevil although no direct connection existed at the time.
		The 4th mission of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is also called Operation Sun Devil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Sundevil (236 words)

	PART THREE: Law and Order
		Instead, "Operation Sundevil" was a crackdown on those traditional scourges of the digital underground: credit-card theft and telephone code abuse.
		Nevertheless, after the spectacular May 8 raids, the public, misled by police secrecy, hacker panic, and a puzzled national press-corps, conflated all aspects of the nationwide crackdown in 1990 under the blanket term "Operation Sundevil." "Sundevil" is still the best-known synonym for the crackdown of 1990.
		Sundevil seems to have been a complete tactical surprise -- unlike the fragmentary and continuing seizures of the war on the Legion of Doom, Sundevil was precisely timed and utterly overwhelming.
	web.bilkent.edu.tr /History/sipb/hacker/part3.html (1582 words)

	Welcome to Piracyguild.com -- Copytight Enforcement
		Operation Fastlink was a coordination of four separate, simultaneous undercover investigations by the FBI, the FBI Cyber Division, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division and Interpol.
		Operation Site Down was an investigation conducted by the FBI and other law enforcement agents from ten other countries which resulted in a raid on targets on June 29, 2005.
		As part of the operation, 90 searches were made worldwide in an effort to disrupt and dismantle many of the leading warez groups which distribute and trade in copyrighted software, movies, music, and games on the Internet.
	www.piracyguild.com /enforcement.html (421 words)

	Good text file about Operation Sundevil What follows is a description of hacking cracking?
		Operation Sun Devil "Recently, we have witnessed an alarming number of young people who, for a variety of sociological and psychological reasons, have become attached to their computers and are exploiting their potential in a criminal manner.
		UNIX is a ubiquitous operating system, and though its main virtue is its openness to amendment at the source level, it is nevertheless the property of AT&T. What had been widely d istributed within businesses and universities for years was suddenly, in Rose's hands, a felonious possession.
		They noted in their statement that "the conceivable criminal violations of this operation have serious implications for the health and welfare of all individuals, corporations, and United States Government agencies relying on computers and telephones to communicate." It was unclear from their statement whether "this operation" meant the Legion of Doom or Operation Sun Devil.
	www.skepticfiles.org /cowtext/bbs/sundevil.htm (10043 words)

	Operation Sundevil - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If Blankenship was a target of Operation Sundevil, its hard to see how the SJG raid could not also be.
		Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacker activities".
		Other parts of the operation involved the underground ezine Phrack, which had published the contents of a proprietary text file, theft from Bell South, containing information about the Enhanced 911 emergency response system.
	www.wordsonline.org /Operation_Sundevil (568 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The official name for this action was "Operation SunDevil", named after the mascot of Arizona State University, where this case started.
		Operation SunDevil was an effort to arrest several hackers to posting stolen credit card codes and telephone calling card codes.
		The Secret Service claimed in a press conference on May 9, 1990, that the primary purpose of Operation SunDevil was to send a message to the hacking community, that they could not hide behind the "relative anonymity of their computer terminals.", and that the Feds could and would bust them.
	www.textfiles.com /hacking/sundevil.txt (470 words)

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		Operation Sun Devil was disclosed early this month by the Secret Service, which conducted 27 searches of suspected hackers' homes and offices, confiscating 23,000 computer disks and 40 computer systems.
		The Secret Service said the hackers who were the target of the probe are individuals who had gained unauthorized access to company computer systems--including one at American Telephone & Telegraph Co.--or had stolen and distributed software programs that belonged to major corporations.
		Kapor contends that if the people responsible for operating computer bulletin boards are held responsible for information posted on their boards, hackers will stop using the boards.
	www.etext.org /CuD/NIA/nia-35 (624 words)

	Outlaws on the Loose, 2/16/98
		The BBS actually was operated as a customer service by a legitimate business called Steve Jackson Games, which later sued the government and was awarded $51,000 in damages.
		Dubbed Operation Sundevil, the carefully planned strike "was dramatic and fear-inspiring at the inception but ended up a fiasco by most accounts,'' says Lance Rose, a Montclair, N.J.-based attorney who specializes in online law and author of Netlaw: Your Rights in the Online World.
		Operation Sundevil netted some 42 computers, 25 BBSes and 23,000 floppy disks but resulted in only four arrests, and one was on an illegal-weapons charge.
	www.networkworld.com /netresources/0216feat.html (3207 words)

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		The warrants were issued as a part of Operation Sundevil, which was a two year investigation into alleged illegal computer hacking activities.
		The excesses of Operation Sun Devil are only the beginning of what threatens to become a long, difficult, and philosophically obscure struggle between institutional control and individual liberty.
		BBS operators have a great deal of concern as to the liability they might face for the dissemination of information on their boards which may turn out to have been obtained originally without authorization, or which discuss activity which may be considered illegal.
	www.bbsdocumentary.com /photos/129ripco/FILES/sundevil.txt (12108 words)

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		Operation Sun Devil is the code name for a nationwide group of investigations by the U.S. Secret Service and various state authorities.
		Unlike other operators who rule their boards like a god, I decided long ago to let the people do what they wanted without getting in the way and give them the freedom to stand on their own two feet.
		Ripco operated on an Apple //e and had no connections to the macs besides being near them which apparently is the way they determined what stayed and what went.
	pages.ripco.com /ripco/oldripco/uxu-033.txt (16487 words)

	Afterword: The Hacker Crackdown Three Years Later
		In 1993, there were an estimated 60,000 boards in America; the population of boards had fully doubled since Operation Sundevil in 1990.
		"Operation Longarm," a child- pornography computer raid carried out by the previously little- known cyberspace rangers of the U.S. Customs Service, was almost the size of Operation Sundevil, but received very little notice by comparison.
		The huge and well-organized "Operation Disconnect," an FBI strike against telephone rip-off con-artists, was actually larger than Sundevil.
	web.bilkent.edu.tr /History/sipb/hacker/afterword.html (910 words)

	THE HACKER CRACKDOWN - LAW AND ORDER
		Sundevil was offered as proof that the community of American computer crime police had come of age.
		Sundevil was proof that the Secret Service and its local law enforcement allies could act like a well oiled machine -- (despite the hampering use of those scrambled phones).
		Though uttering almost nothing specific about the Sundevil operation itself, she coined some of the most striking soundbites of the growing propaganda war: "Agents are operating in good faith, and I don't think you can say that for the hacker community," was one.
	homepages.tscnet.com /tyrin/crackdown/crack_6.html (21635 words)

	Flashback.se
		Some of those responsible for Sundevil, such as USDA Bill Cook and USSS special agent Tim Foley, were successfully sued in civil court for their excesses in raiding Steve Jackson Games a few months earlier.
		One high-profile state prosecutor closely associated with Sundevil often cautioned critics to "wait until all the facts come out," presumably because the operation and those who planned it would be vindicated.
		Quite the opposite: Sundevil was costly, had few significant results, produced few directly-related indictments or convictions, proved a major public relations disaster, and messed up some innocent lives.
	www.flashback.se /bibliotek/index.php?lang=se&group=205&item=2384 (4756 words)

	The Hacker Crackdown Three Years Later
		In 1993, there were an estimated 60,000 boards in America; the population of boards had fully doubled since Operation Sundevil in 1990.
		"Operation Longarm," a child-pornography computer raid carried out by the previously little-known cyberspace rangers of the U.S. Customs Service, was almost the size of Operation Sundevil, but received very little notice by comparison.
		The huge and well-organized "Operation Disconnect," an FBI strike against telephone rip-off con-artists, was actually larger than Sundevil.
	members.tripod.com /~hackdown/afterword.html (3395 words)

	GURPS Cyberpunk - Definition, explanation
		GURPS Cyberpunk received notoriety when the Austin headquarters of Steve Jackson Games was raided by the U.S. Secret Service in 1990 as a part of Operation Sundevil, a nation-wide crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities".
		Striving for secrecy during the ongoing operation, the investigators were reluctant to release information about the E911 document that their investigation was focused on.
		Operation Sundevil, which spanned two years, has a tarnished image due to lack of successful prosecutions and questionable procedures.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gu/gurps_cyberpunk.php (1312 words)

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		Operation Sundevil is one of many examples of the "Hacker Crackdown."[5]
		Operation Sundevil, and the more recent arrest of Kevin Mitnik, highlight the way hacker identities are used to draw lines between freedom of information and private ownership; between a secure state and anarchy; and between normal United States citizens and abnormal ones.
		Hackers within the United States (such as Poulsen) are linked to espionage to clarify the threat as external and "other." As Wilder and Miolino report, all the security people left over from the cold war are turning into "information brokers" and using the internet to advertise their abilities to attain confidential information.
	www.soc.hawaii.edu /future/dissertation/chapter6.html (9716 words)

	riverfronttimes.com - News - Hack Mentality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a nationwide crackdown dubbed Operation Sundevil, federal agents arrested Prophet and Leftist, two members of the Atlanta branch of the Legion of Doom, an infamous gang of computer hackers.
		Ultimately the feds dropped the charges of wire fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property pending against Neidorf, after it was revealed in his trial that the 911 documents, which BellSouth valued at nearly $80,000, could be purchased by the public in hard-copy form for a mere $13.
		Operation Sundevil had another unexpected outcome: It spurred the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a watchdog organization seeking to protect First Amendment rights on the fledgling Internet.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /Issues/2001-01-03/news/news_full.html (2709 words)

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		Neidorf, publisher of a now-defunct electronic newsletter called "Phrack", was linked to a hacker group operating in several states, who were known as the "Legion of Doom." Neidorf was accused of interstate transportation of "stolen" property, namely a text file describing operations of Bell South's Emergency 911 system.
		BBS operators may have less to fear now about prosecution for illegal material found on their systems.
		Operators must still be alert, because frequently in raids by agents, all computer equipment, manuals, and storage material are seized, and under the present system may not be returned for some time, if ever.
	www.timothyward.com /dox/ccsu/bl310rp.htm (1142 words)

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		This operation was directed mostly at hackers who were involved with credit card theft and telephone code abuse, particularly on underground bulletin boards on the internet.
		Although "Operation Sundevil" was only a small drop in the bucket to all the illegal activities on the internet, the main aim for Law officials was to send a message that "hackers could not hide behind the relative anonyminity of their computer terminals".
		A lot of people regard the operation as overreaction by the police and an embarrassment that created an enmity between hackers and law enforcers.
	www.waikato.ac.nz /film/student/2001/0211310B/HannahBower/hrb6-cases.html (501 words)

	Part 3.1: Law and Order
		During Sundevil, a large number of code kids, warez d00dz, and credit card thieves would be deprived of those boards - their means of community and conspiracy - in one swift blow.
		Sundevil seems to have been a complete tactical surprise - unlike the fragmentary and continuing seizures of the war on the Legion of Doom, Sundevil was precisely timed and utterly overwhelming.
		Sundevil was proof that the Secret Service and its local law enforcement allies could act like a well oiled machine - (despite the hampering use of those scrambled phones).
	www.foo.be /docs-free/books/HackerCrackdown-Sterling/lorder1.html (11616 words)

	Hackers On Trial
		In 1990, Operation Sundevil, an operation headed by the Secret Service, made several well publicized busts aimed at hackers.
		While carrying out Operation Sundevil, law enforcement made several arrests which sparked debate over hacking as it related to First and Fourth Amendment issues.
		Operation Sundevil sparked public debate on the Internet over who should monitor the Internet and how that authority should be enforced.
	www.english.ucf.edu /publications/enc4932/cassie.htm (4603 words)

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