From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:46:52 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Internet blamed for pipe bombs
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	I found instructions out of the US for such a while back, which fact
should help in any debates on limiting access to such information in the US.
Also note the attempted link to the War On (some) Drugs.
	-Allen

>Pipe bombs: Easy weapons you can whip up at home

>   _(c) Copyright 1996 Nando.net _
   
>    Sacramento Bee
    
>   SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It's no wonder curious teenagers, drug dealers
>   looking to intimidate and thousands of others for unknown reasons are
>   building pipe bombs, experts say: The ingredients are at the hardware
>   store and the instructions on the Internet.
   
>   Across the country, latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
>   Tobacco and Firearms show a 20 percent jump in pipe bomb incidents
>   between 1990 and 1994.

[...]

>   "We've been incredibly busy," said sheriff's bomb technician Judd
>   Holiday. "As crime in other categories is dropping, this is going up."
   
[...]

>   Crude, cheap and surprisingly powerful, pipe bombs are proliferating
>   in part because directions are easy to find on computer networks,
>   experts say. One electronic recipe for a pipe hand grenade ends with
>   the exhortation "Ready to go!"
   
>   "It's all over the Internet," said Peter Urrea, resident agent in
>   charge of the Sacramento office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol,
>   Tobacco and Firearms.
   
>   Pipe bombs are also an increasingly popular tool of intimidation for
>   makers and dealers of the illegal drug methamphetamine, said Holiday.