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EFF-Austin panel commemmorating the 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games raid

The Secret Service raid on Austin’s Steve Jackson Games started the fight over freedom and privacy online, and resulted in the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and EFF-Austin.

On the twentieth anniversary of the SJG raid, Pete Kennedy (who argued the case), Bruce Sterling (author of Hacker Crackdown) and EFF-Austin President Jon Lebkowsky sat down to discuss the raid and its ramifications. Unfortunately, the video of that panel was lost for three years (!), but has finally resurfaced!

I podcasted a reading of the whole text of The Hacker Crackdown, Bruce Sterling’s seminal history of the raid and its aftermath.

Video: 20th Anniversary of The Raid on Steve Jackson Games [EFF-Austin]

(Thanks, Jonl!)

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