-------- Original Message -------- Subject: re: Debunking a myth: Internet recipe lets you make ricin Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:09:13 -0400 From: Poindexter@SAFe-mail.net To: 70743.1711@private CC: jya@private, declan@private, cypherpunks@private >One of the great received wisdoms of the war on terror is that deadly recipes are available worldwide courtesy of the Internet. In the context of information on ricin, the meme presents regularly in the big media. <snip> >Finally, the mythology of the recipe for ricin exposes one of the most nettlesome ironies of instantaneous world wide communication. Although it has always been promised that the ubiquity of networked computing would enable a host of alternative information sources, what is found is that -- in practice and when push comes to shove -- the allegedly vast ocean of alternatives all say the same thing, with only minor variations, all drawing from the same text, the same myth. The IIR #chemistry channel: >From our WoMD series: Practical ricin preparation complements a now redacted US patent 3,060,165 https://www.meshmx.com/fe/download_get.php?file=FE:3260610bc13ef573d9103c16e90bac53bead0eea John Poindexter Director Grand Duchy of Fenwick Institute for Strategic Studies -------- Original Message -------- Subject: re: Debunking a myth: Internet recipe lets you make ricin [updated] Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:25:00 -0400 From: Poindexter@SAFe-mail.net To: 70743.1711@private CC: jya@private, declan@private, cypherpunks@private [My apologies and thanks to those who let me know I had not provided any instructions for funding of the File Exchange pay token needed for downloading the patent. Fetch the following free Acrobat document: https://www.meshmx.com/fe/download_get.php?file=FE:7afa5f883d186d893080443498aa1625639f1cb5 ] The IIR #chemistry channel: >From our WoMD series: Practical ricin preparation complements a now redacted US patent 3,060,165 https://www.meshmx.com/fe/download_get.php?file=FE:3260610bc13ef573d9103c16e90bac53bead0eea John Poindexter Director Grand Duchy of Fenwick Institute for Strategic Studies _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Mar 03 2004 - 22:27:58 PST