[80318] in Cypherpunks
Re: Jim Bell goes to Jail!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Mon May 19 01:02:12 1997
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:59:50 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199705190341.UAA17427@netcom18.netcom.com> from "Mike Duvos" at May 18, 97 08:41:48 pm
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Prof. Mike Duvos wrote:
> Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> writes:
> > IRS agents arrest Vancouver man who called for killing
> > federal workers
>
> As I recall, Bell never called for anyone to be killed. He merely
> suggested that the construction of anonymous wagering pools would
> faciliate a market in the disposal of tyrants.
I can attest to that if necessary.
> > Federal agents since have focused on a Bell theory that
> > carbon fibers could be used to sabotage computer hard
> > drives, thus disabling them. East confirmed Bell's interest
> > in using carbon fibers as a "computer killer" but dismissed
> > it as a "goofball idea."
>
> I thought microscopic amounts of airborne silicone were the
> preferred method of causing large numbers of drives to
> mysteriously fail.
Wait, aren't hard drives hermetic?
> > The search warrant for East's home shows that the
> > government also is interested in determining whether Bell
> > and others have experimented with volatile chemicals in
> > preparation for attacks on IRS offices and agents.
>
> The government is only lending credibility to Bell's paranoia by
> behaving like jackbooted thugs.
While you are right, I think that the government is as, if not more,
paranoid than Jim Bell or anyone else.
> Is this federal agent Bell is supposed to have interfered with
> one of the agents who arrested him? Sounds like fabrication from
> whole cloth to me.
They may be simply harassing him. There is really no substance in
what we've read.
- Igor.
