Originally published at: https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/10/the-secret-service-and-the-sims-raid/
This week has been one of those weeks where the choice of what to blog about has been so difficult, because there are so many important stories worthy of our signature “high octane speculation treatment.” Indeed, I am starting this week’s blogs by writing about a story that I fully intended to blog about within…
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… and that does not even include folks who do things like this for “fun” …
or groups like this …
L0pht Heavy Industries were a hacker group active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The L0pht was one of the first viable hackerspaces in the US, and a pioneer of Responsible Disclosure. The group testified in front of Congress in 1998 on the topic of ‘Weak Computer Security in Government’.
… I think I first read about them in The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll (1989).
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A video from 1990 about it…notice the PBS sponsors. 
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