Date: Tue, 12 May 92 01:14:12 CST
From: anonymous@anon.edu
Subject: File 1--Some Corrections to '90 Bust Story in CuD 4.21

The following clarifications should be noted in reference to the
article in Cu Digest, #4.21, in the Steve Jackson Games section:

    >In July of 1989, Secret Service agents were examining electronic
    >mail records of a privately-owned computer system in Illinois
    >owned by Rich Andrews.  Those records, which contained the
    >computer equivalent of a list of all mail sent through a
    >particular post office, showed that a copy of a newsletter called
    >"Phrack" had been sent to Loyd Blankenship, the managing editor
    >at Steve Jackson Games, Loyd Blankenship, in late February of
    >1989.

Actually, the records showed that Loyd Blankenship *sent* a copy of
Phrack 24 to someone on Jolnet. He received his own copy directly
from Craig.  The source was not Jolnet.

    >1/90:  Bell Communications Research security manager Henry M.
    >Kluepfel dials into Loyd Blankenship's home BBS, the Phoenix
    >Project, under his real name.

Mr. Kluepfel was never on Phoenix Project under his real name,
according to userlogs from the day the system was taken down. He
certainly would have been *welcome* on -- The Phoenix Project had
several phone security officers and law enforcement agents already.
CuD moderators reportedly possess userlogs from TPP during its
history and can verify that there is no "Kluepfel" among the users on
any of those logs.

    >2/90:  Search warrants are given for the residences of Bob Izenberg
    >(2/20), Loyd Blankenship (2/28) and Chris Goggans (2/28), and at
    >the office of Steve Jackson Games (2/28).  The SJG warrant is
    >unsigned; the other warrants are signed by U.S. Magistrate
    >Stephen H. Capelle on the day that they're served.

Bob Izenberg was raided in 2/90. Goggans, Loyd Blankenship and SJG
were raided in 3/90.  The warrant for Loyd was also unsigned, as was
(if previous reports are correct) the warrant for Chris.

    >Three hours after the raid at another, Secret Service agents have
    >called Austin computer store owner Rick Wallingford at home, to
    >verify that he sold a pinball machine to one of the warrant
    >subjects.

It was a PacMan machine.

    >CHRIS GOGGANS:  Former employee of Steve Jackson Games.
    >Unavailable for comment.

Chris Goggans was never an employee of Steve Jackson Games.

These may seem trivial corrections, but because of the rumors and
inaccurate information about the case and its particulars, we should
assure that even minor details are correct.

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