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February 21. Chicago Task Force raids Robert Izenberg in Austin.

March 1. Chicago Task Force raids Steve Jackson Games, Inc.,
"Mentor," and "Erik Bloodaxe" in Austin.

May 7,8,9. USSS and Arizona Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau
conduct "Operation Sundevil" raids in Cincinnatti, Detroit, Los Angeles,
Miami, Newark, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Tucson, San Diego, San
Jose, and San Francisco.


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 May. FBI interviews John Perry Barlow re NuPrometheus case.

June. Mitch Kapor and Barlow found Electronic Frontier Foundation;
Barlow publishes *Crime and Puzzlement* manifesto.

July 24-27. Trial of Knight Lightning.


1991

February. CPSR Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

March 25-28. Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in San
Francisco.

May 1. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Steve Jackson, and others file
suit against members of Chicago Task Force.


July 1-2. Switching station phone software crash affects Washington,
Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, San Francisco.

September 17. AT&T phone crash affects New York City and three air-
ports.




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 INTRODUCTION

This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz- kids, and lawyers, and
hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and
high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security
experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves.