01 август 2004

1995: eff list ms rebuts sunday times' Anarchists Use Computer Highway For Subversion, reports coinciding govt clampdown on bbs archivists

"Have you guys seen this story? It's the second in a series in the UK regarding Spunk Press (the first was in Computing magazine). The story is horrendously innacurate, and Mr. Heavens has been suspended from his job at Spider pending an investigation. Word is they have been told by M15 to fire him, I can't confirm. [..] I'd laugh if this was remotely funny, but people I know are getting reamed. Another member of Spunk in Italy had his board (a political BBS, not a hacker board, very anti-Mafia) confiscated just before these stories broke, there was another BBS seizure that the press has related to Spunk in Scotland, although we don't know the guys."