1998-03-03 - Re: Radio Frequency Warfare Hearing

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From: bill.stewart@pobox.com
To: John Young <cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1998-03-03 01:28:15 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:28:15 -0800 (PST)

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From: bill.stewart@pobox.com
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:28:15 -0800 (PST)
To: John Young <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Radio Frequency Warfare Hearing
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At 08:17 AM 2/28/98 -0500, John Young wrote:
>We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint 
>Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency 
>Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy."
>  http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm  (112K)

John!  You can't do that!  That's putting bomb-making information
on the Internet!  It's safe to have it in government hearing documents,
where only technically incompetent Congresscritters will read it,
but by letting the public know, you're facilitating right-wing 
conspiracies and anarchists and terrorists and teenage kids
and all those other dangerous people getting access to weapons
of low-mass destruction!

On a slightly more serious note, I'm surprised from the
excerpts of the description that the $500 of parts would
generate enough joules of electrical energy induced into
sensitive parts of computer equipment in some reasonable range
to do a lot of damage.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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