Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!bbn.com From: milliken@bbn.com (Walter Milliken) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Steve Jackson Games (was Re: "Bad" backups) Message-ID: <61027@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 20 Nov 90 23:25:11 GMT References: <36354@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@bbn.com Reply-To: milliken@bbn.com (Walter Milliken) Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) In article , curt@cynic (Curt Sampson) writes: >new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes: >> Yet another good reason for off-site backups. Live and learn. -- Darren > >They *had* off-site backups. They went home with employees and forced them to >surrender *every* copy of the relevant (?) information. I haven't heard anything about this. To my knowledge, the only copies were at SJG's offices, and at the home of the author. Normally, that would be plenty of backup, but the author was the target of the raid, so both the home and office copies went. The various discussions about the raid on SJG-BBS have never said about the Feds going to anyone else's home (at least SJG people). There were, in fact, partial off-site backups in that many playtesters had bits and pieces of the manuscript, downloaded from copies on SJG-BBS. As far as I know, the Feds never bothered any of these people, and SJG managed to collect parts of the manuscript back from playtester copies. But some of it had never been posted for playtest. ---Walter