http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51648,00.html Cyanide Anarchist a Hacker, Too? By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 2:00 a.m. April 9, 2002 PDT A 25-year-old anarchist who goes by the moniker "Dr. Chaos" is not only accused of being a potential cyanide-terrorist. The FBI also believes that Joseph Konopka, charged with illegally possessing sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide, is a nefarious computer hacker with ties to 2600 magazine. On Friday, about nine FBI agents swooped down on a public gathering of hackers loosely associated with 2600 and interrogated attendees about subway tunnels in Chicago, Illinois, where Konopka allegedly stashed over a pound of poison. "He had met with members of this group once or more than once in the past," Ross Rice, a spokesman for the Chicago FBI office, said on Monday. On the first Friday of every month, self-described hackers in scores of cities convene for 2600 meetings -- events that are part social gathering, part tech-tip swapping and sometimes a recruitment opportunity for local Internet firms. Around 6 p.m. last Friday, FBI agents surrounded the roughly 15 attendees at the Chicago-area 2600 gathering, held in the Great Hall at Union Station. Attendees said that the agents showed them a photo of Konopka and asked questions about chemical agents, explosives, and tours of the subway system. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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