At 10:37 PM -0800 12/19/98, Anonymous wrote:

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At 9:17 PM -0800 12/19/98, Anonymous wrote:

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The FBI is in between a rock and a hard-on here.

If anthrax spores really had been released into those air ducts, it could potentially infect anyone in the building. They can't very well let these people walk out when they might be carriers of antrax. That's the power of bioweapons: Infect a bunch of people and they do the work of spreading it for you.

This is not how anthrax spreads. Communicability between humans is nearly nonexistent.

If this is true, we've caught the media in yet another lie. The media likes to paint the picture that anthrax can be released in an airport and spread to all corners of the country in a matter of hours.

Typical of the media. Shame on me for accessing anything they've shoved down my throat. :)

Even if I hadn't read "The Hot Zone," "The Coming Plague," "The Cobra Event," and various other CBW books and articles, and even if I hadn't visited the CDC and other Web sites, I would have known from news reports that the trick to using anthrax as a weapon is to properly disperse the spores. Human to human contact is a poor way to disperse these spores. Eating the flesh of anthrax-infected humans _may_ spread the spores, but data are too sparse to verify this. --Tim May We would go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.