Editing Phrack (section)

===Arrest of Knight Lightning===
{{main|Operation Sundevil}}
The 24th issue of ''Phrack'', released February 1989, included a document relating to the workings of [[Enhanced 911]] emergency response systems.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=The Eavesdropper |title=Control Office Administration Of Enhanced 911 Services For Special Services And Major Account Centers |journal=Phrack |issue=24 |pages=5 |date=1989-02-25 |url=http://phrack.org/issues.html?issue=24&id=5#article |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018015950/http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=24&id=5&mode=txt |archive-date=18 October 2007 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> This document was an administrative document describing which parts of the organization are responsible for what parts of the E911 system.<ref name="hackercrackdown4"/> It had been copied from a [[BellSouth]] computer and played a major part in a series of [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] raids called [[Operation Sundevil]] and featured in [[Bruce Sterling]]'s book ''[[The Hacker Crackdown]]''. ''Phrack'''s editor, [[Knight Lightning]], was arrested and charged with access device fraud and transportation of stolen property.<ref name="hackercrackdown4"/> The proceedings which ensued are known formally as ''[[United States v. Riggs]]'', named for [[Knight Lightning]]'s co-defendant Robert Riggs.


The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] filed an [[amicus brief]] supporting Knight Lightning, and helped to get the case dropped<ref>{{cite web |url=http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/not_too_brief_history.html |title=A Not Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation |first=John Perry |last=Barlow |author-link=John Perry Barlow |date=November 8, 1990 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121228011522/https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/not_too_brief_history.html |archive-date=2012-12-28 |url-status=dead |access-date=2022-06-07 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYpB1NzCO6g |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/LYpB1NzCO6g| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=TEDxMarin The Right to Know|first=John Perry|last=Barlow |website=[[YouTube]] |date=June 1, 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> by introducing a witness who showed that [[Bellcore]] was selling more detailed documentation to the E911 system for as little as $13 to anyone who asked. The E911 document had initially been valued by the prosecution at almost $80,000.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110720013626/http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/CUDS2/cud204.txt CuD Computer Underground Digest issue 2.04] file 4, originally published September 23, 1990; via [[archive.org]]</ref> The case was then dropped.<ref name="hackercrackdown4">{{cite book |first=Bruce |last=Sterling |author-link=Bruce Sterling |title=The Hacker Crackdown |publisher=Bantam Books |date=1993-11-01 |chapter=Part 4 |url=http://www.mit.edu:8001/hacker/part4.html |isbn=0-553-56370-X |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601150232/http://www.mit.edu:8001/hacker/part4.html |archive-date=2012-06-01 }}</ref>