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Re: More on the Jim Bell case

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Tue May 20 00:52:39 1997

In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970519183115.00b84e30@mail.teleport.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 21:25:14 -0700
To: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>

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>The local news just had a story on the Jim Bell case.
>
>They are now claiming that the search warrent (how the news people got a copy
>is a big question) included Sarin nerve gas and Anthrax (not the band).

Nah, he told me that stuff was destroyed long ago ;-)

Can't imagine anyone going the trouble of culturing Anthrax when there's
other simpler to obtain/manufacture and almost as potent CBW agents ;;-)

>
>The news story was a pretty interesting hatchet job.  Included a number of
>horsemen and prominently mentioned encryption.

I impression was that jim didn't use encryption religously ;-(

>They claimed that the reason
>for the raid on East's home was because he sent Bell encrypted messages
>containing various evil and unauthorized thoughts.

So did a good portion of this list.

--Steve


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