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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:07:46 EST
From: morgan@ENGR.UKY.EDU(Wes Morgan)
Subject: File 4--Re: "Explosive Data for Bombs" (CuD #5.05)
>Subject--Explosive Data for Homemade Bombs
>
>Hartford Courant (Connecticut Newspaper)
>
> KEYBOARDING EXPLOSIVE DATA FOR HOMEMADE BOMBS
> Bomb Recipes Just a Keystroke Away
> By Tracy Gordon Fox, Courant Staff Writer
I find it interesting that this article appears in the same CuD issue
as a reasoned paper by a prosecutor. It's illustrative of the public
'technophobia' when faced with computing. Until the public can be
informed (as a whole), law enforcement will continue to act upon
situation such as these, with nothing but public ignorance to blame.
>Teenagers learning how to manufacture bombs through home or school
>computers have contributed to the nearly 50% increase in the number of
>homemade explosives discovered last year by state police, authorities
>said.
>
>In addition to the misguided computer hackers,
I wonder if a university professor would be "misguided" if his research
included demolitions and explosives.........more hyperbole/hysteria
from the media, I guess.....Hey, wait a minute! My specialty during
my military service was demolitions; hey guys, I'm "misguided"!
>Making bombs is not a new phenomenon, but the computer age has brought
>the recipes for the explosives to the fingertips of anyone with a
>little computer knowledge and a modem.
Ha! I can call the UK library <a Federal Depository Library> and have
the US Army Field Manual "Military Explosives" on my desk within 48
hours. I can drive less than one mile to an Army Surplus store that
sells copies of the Army's "Improvised Munitions Handbook". I can
pick up a copy of "Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials" from
the Lexington Public Library and extract enough information to make
bombs. Heck, the industry's standard laboratory safety guide says
"don't mix X and Y; they'll explode".
If I want to tell someone else, I can always drive to their house or
call them on the telephone. Why don't we hear a hue and cry about
these sources of information?
>University of Connecticut police say they do not know if computers
>were the source for a series of soda-bottle bombs that exploded
>outside a dormitory last February.
They don't know, but it was worth mentioning anyway? Why does the
press bother to report these facts? More hysteria......
>Police have dubbed these explosives "MacGyver bombs" because they were
>apparently made popular in the television detective show, "MacGyver."
>Two-liter soda bottles are stuffed with volatile chemicals that cause
>pressure to build until the plastic bursts. The bombs explode either
>from internal pressure or on impact.
So, broadcast <and cable> television is also a distribution channel
for these *nefarious* devices! Let's write a hysterical article about
"Remote Controls Lead to Explosions"!
>"There were a number of students involved in making the soda bottle
>bombs. They knew what ingredients to mix," said Capt. Fred Silliman.
>"They were throwing them out the dorm windows and they made a very
>large boom, a loud explosion."
Most high school chemistry students could do this independently;
almost any university chemistry student should be able to do this in
about 5 minutes.
>Typically, they are loners, who are socially dysfunctional, excel in
>mathematics and science, and are "over motivated in one area," he
>said.
Uh huh.....I'm getting rather tired of seeing the "socially
dysfunctional" label applied to each and every person interested in
computers.
>"This shows the ability kids have," Goodrow said. Goodrow said he was
>at first amazed when teenage suspects showed him the information they
>could get by hooking on to computer bulletin boards.
Had they taken him to the local library, would he have been amazed?
If not, why should online resources be a source of amazement?
I hope that the "legal eagles" particpating in CuD will take note of
this article; we all have a long educational road ahead of us, if we
want to eliminate/control ignorance such as this.
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