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Up one level | To Tom Geller's writings | Home Bombs and such: Tools for Fools By Tom Geller While the amount of damage caused by hateful words is arguable, one fact remains: words are words. Just as an offended news reader can't punch an article poster in the face, the damage done by the original article remains non-physical. For those who want to exercise their beliefs in a physically destructive way, resources are easily available on the Internet. Resources, remember, accessible to all, regardless of political agenda. A fruitful place to start is the Gopher site for "Wiretap" (gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Library/Untech). There, you'll find everything you ever wanted to know about lock picking, fooling Automatic Tellers, and building bombs, including the canonical "Terrorist's Handbook." If you'd like a slightly more user-friendly interface than Gopher allows, try the WWW page "CandyMan's CandyLand" (http://www.mcs.com/~candyman/home.html). Several newsgroups also carry discussions on these subjects: alt.pyrotechnics is dedicated specifically to bombs and other explosives (often with a non-terrorist, scientific bent) and alt.2600 deals with computer hacking, phone "phreaking" and related topics. Most of this information has been readily accessible in libraries and bookstores for decades, much of it, ironically, published by the U.S. Government. But such information has remained hard to acquire, refused at most bookstores: with the equivalent of a printing press in every Internet account, however, the censorship of inadequate distribution no longer applies. This page was last updated on Monday, February 09, 2004 at 3:07pm CST. All contents copyright 2005 by Tom Geller.