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by ryan-c 4323 days ago
For those not familiar, Steve Jackson Games makes RPGs and were nearly driven out of business due to a secret service raid[1] done in response to the "GURPS Cyberpunk" book (described by the secret service as "a manual for computer crime") they were working on.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil

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"This raid is often wrongly attributed to Operation Sundevil, a nation-wide crackdown on ‘illegal computer hacking activities’ that was occurring about this time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Cyberpunk#.E2.80.9CThe_b...

I actually saw that and forgot to update the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...