Someone has forwarded this info:
The Hartford Courant on August 5, 1993 (page b-4) stated that a 21 year old computer BBS operator was arrested for maintaining a computer bulletin board that had a bomb making recipe.
Michael Elansky was charged by the West Hartford police with inciting injury to persons or property - a felony charge - and risk of injury to a minor.
He was held in lieu of $500,000 bond (in CT the bond for a person accused of murder is normally $100,000)
Det. Capt. James Gustafson said the case was "sealed" and no information could be released.
Michal Elansky's father said information from the Anarchists Cook Book (Available from Paladin Press, P.O. Box 1307, Boulder, CO 80306,
I find this hard to believe...not saying it isn't true, but it's hard for me to believe that the cause was just material from the long-available, long-discredited "Anarchists Cookbook"...I bought my copy in 1972-3 and it's still widely available (Loompanics, Paladin, the "Anubus Warpus" store in Santa Cruz, etc.). I hope the EFF gets involved in this one, as there shouldn't be a double standard, with printed material (books, magazines) held to a different legal standard than bulletin boards and networks are. (The copyright violation issues are another--and much lesser--matter.) If something is legal in written form--and nearly everything should be, of course--then the electronic form should be treated identically. -Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Note: I put time and money into writing this posting. I hope you enjoy it.