Secret Service walkie-talkie
traffic, begged them not to do it, and offered his key to the building.

The exact details of the next events are unclear. The agents would not
let anyone else into the building. Their search warrant, when
produced, was unsigned. Apparently they breakfasted from the local
"Whataburger," as the litter from hamburgers was later found inside.
They also extensively sampled a bag of jellybeans kept by an SJG
employee. Someone tore a "Dukakis for President" sticker from the wall.

SJG employees, diligently showing up for the day's work, were met at
the door and briefly questioned by U.S. Secret Service agents. The
employees watched in astonishment as agents wielding crowbars and
screwdrivers emerged with captive machines. They attacked outdoor
storage units with boltcutters. The agents wore blue nylon
windbreakers with "SECRET SERVICE" stencilled across the back, with
running-shoes and jeans.

Jackson's company lost three computers, several hard-disks, hundred of
floppy disks, two monitors, three modems, a laser printer, various
powercords, cables, and adapters (and, oddly, a small bag of screws,
bolts and nuts). The seizure of Illuminati BBS deprived SJG of all the
programs, text files, and private e-mail on the board. The loss of two
other SJG computers was a severe blow as well, since it caused the loss
of electronically stored contracts, financial projections, address
directories, mailing lists, personnel files, business correspondence,
and, not least, the drafts of forthcoming games and gaming books.

No one at Steve Jackson Games was arrested. No one was accused of any
crime. No charges were filed. Everything appropriated was officially
kept as "evidence" of crimes never specified.

After the Phrack show-trial, the Steve Jackson Games scandal was the
most bizarre and aggravating incident of the Hacker Crackdown of 1990.
This raid by the Chicago Task Force on a science-fiction gaming
publisher was to rouse a swarming host of civil liberties issues, and
gave rise to an enduring controversy that was still re-complicating
itself, and growing in the scope of its implications, a full two years
later.

The pursuit of the E911 Document stopped with the Steve Jackson Games
raid. As we have seen, there were hundreds, perhaps thousands of
computer users in America with the E911 Document in their possession.
Theoretically, Chicago had a perfect legal right to raid any of these
people