Geeks for Freedom - Poland 1985

Idle Words bring us this fascinating story about TV Solidarity which proves that even in 1985 geeks with computers were dangerous to governments:

Professor Eugeniusz Pazderski who built the transmission equipment using amongst other things a ZX Spectrum describes the ordeal that followed like this:

That same evening right after 8:00 PM I saw the Solidarity TV logo on my own television screen. I was bursting with pride, but I also felt very uneasy. And with good reason, since around midnight four plainclothesmen and a uniformed policeman knocked on my door. They spent several hours ransacking my apartment - doing it so quietly that neither my wife or my kids woke up. They found cassettes with ZX Spectrum programs on them and underground publications, they also took my computer. In the end they made me wake up my wife to find out what she had in her sofabed. My dear late wife behaved very courageously, no panic, she asked for her dressing gown, got off the sofabed and then only watched as the sad men led her husband off to who knows where.