[79473] in Cypherpunks
Re: Booby traps, but no anarchist writings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Fri May 2 21:55:26 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Fri, 02 May 97 15:01:46 EDT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.92.970502122952.3001A-100000@conch.msen.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Lou Poppler <lwp@mail.msen.com> writes:
> >From today's NYT
> http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/ny-explosives.html
>
> [N] EW YORK -- A Bronx man who booby-trapped his
> apartment with homemade bombs accidentally blew his
> left hand off Thursday morning, the police said,
> [snip]
> Just what Saperstein -- who has a criminal record dating
> back to 1983 for weapons possession, disorderly conduct
> and drug possession -- was doing with all the explosives
> puzzled investigators.
>
> "There's no indication he was involved in any group,"
> said a police investigator, who spoke on the condition
> of anonymity. "There were no rantings or anarchist
> writings of any kind."
> [snip]
> [end of quoted material]
>
> Good thing this guy didn't have a folder of old cypherpunks messages on a
> hard drive! Then he'd *really* be in trouble I guess.
They don't mention whether he learned how to make bombs on the Internet,
which means they haven't ruled out this possibility either.
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