********* http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/1,1042,902,00.html The Netly News Network May 1, 1997 Bombs Away by Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com) Internet fear-mongering is back in vogue inside the White House. The Clinton administration escalated its assault on the Net this week, warning that it provides bomb-making recipes to anyone "with a modem" and proposing a new law to restrict such information. In a 53-page report released on Tuesday, the Department of Justice alleges that criminals are trawling cyberspace for how-to kits on making explosives. "ATF statistics reflect that, between 1985 and June 1996, the investigations of at least 30 bombings and four attempted bombings resulted in the recovery of bomb-making literature that the suspects had obtained from the Internet," the report says. "A member of the DoJ committee accessed a single web site on the World Wide Web and obtained the titles of 110 different bomb-making texts." [...] ------------------------- Declan McCullagh Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/