This 1985 is an important part of the “ #hacker hysteria” that started to take hold from late 1983 onwards. Cops & prosecutors in this case were not tech minded & wanted to talk to the media, a bad combination for the kids who were busted. Garbled details to reporters about Pentagon & satellites.
You can find a Chicago Tribune article lambasting this growing hysteria from October of 1985 here
https://archive.ph/lb5q0
Also are people enjoying short clips like these? I can post them more regularly rather than mostly linking offsite to YouTube or Internet Archive.
You can find the full ABC News segment on this #hacker / BBS raid from July of 1985 on Internet Archive now.
#hacking #history
https://archive.org/details/19850717-abc-news
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