News: London nailbomber used the Net

[Owen Lewis]

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From: "Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org>
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Sent: 06 June 2000 15:55
Subject: RE: News: London nailbomber used the Net


>
> It occurs to me that if the tabloids or Home Office try and connect RIP to
> the Copeland case, it should be pointed out that since he downloaded the
> bomb manuals from a cybercafe, GTAC wouldn't have been able to catch him
> even if they HAD traffic data of all the dodgy site downloads going back
> several years for the whole UK. Unless they put CCTV or compulsory Webcams
> in every cyber caf - bloody hell, mustn't give them ideas...
>
> And if they say that another bomber might make the mistake of accessing
such
> material through their own ISP account, that would rather tend to confirm
> that Big Browser WILL be watching you - which the the Home Office
> strenuously deny.

Well, with downloads of The Anarchist's Cookbook, The Big Book of Mischief,
The Jolly Roger Cookbook and Lord Knows What Else Besides - and all
unencrypted and through my own ISP account - my card has, doubtless, been
well and truly punched. It can only be a matter of time before I'm found
face down in the Thames, somewhere downstream of Vauxhall and Millbank,
clutching a pair of furry dice in one hand.

Bye the bye, have you ever read any of the above named web information
assets? If one knows what one is doing one does not need them. If one does
not know what one is doing they will very surely kill one. Someone has done
a neat disinformation job, deliberately or otherwise.


Owen Lewis