Operation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide United States Secret Service crackdown on “illegal computer hacking activities.” It involved raids in approximately fifteen different cities and resulted in three arrests and the confiscation of computers, boards, and floppy disks. The Operation was revealed in a press release on May 9, 1990. The arrests and subsequent court cases resulted in the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Operation is now seen as largely a public-relations stunt. Operation Sundevil has also been viewed as one of the preliminary attacks on the Legion of Doom and similar hacking groups.[1] The raid on Steve Jackson Games, which led to the court case Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, is often attributed to Operation Sundevil, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation states that it is unrelated and cites this attribution as a media error.[2][3] The Operation is named after the football stadium of Arizona State University, “Sundevil.” The stadium’s proximity to the local Secret Service Headquarters, where the investigation and the raids were co-ordinated, led to the naming.[4]
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