http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9809/15/internet.hit.list.ap/index.html
Investigators find "assassination" page on the Web
hit.list September 15, 1998
Web posted at 4:07 PM ET
Portland, Oregon (AP) -- Three Internal Revenue Service agents and a
federal magistrate are the targets on what's described as an Internet
"assassination" Web page.
All four have prices on their heads -- in unusual amounts like 512
dollars and two cents.
IRS investigators think it was posted by a patient in a federal mental
hospital.
The page is thought to be from an essay called "Assassination
Politics." That essay -- written by a jailed tax protester --
describes a supposedly risk-free way to reward those who assassinate
public officials.
Anyone who wants to see someone killed contributes to a fund which --
when large enough -- attracts a killer who predicts the date, time and
location for the deed to be done.
If it happens, the killer is paid with untraceable digital money.
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pgp 1024/D9C69DF9 1997/10/14 steve mynott