About the CMU and double moral
Barbara Schwarz
with bomb instruction.
Barbara Schwarz
http://no-terror.wirewalk.com/
Cyberterrorism
Then there are a number of people who promote all forms of terrorism
by placing instructions on how to make illegal explosives on the
Internet, some even encouraging their use in schools, against law
enforcement officials or others.
Many of these people mirror or post webpages which were found by them
elsewhere and are simply copied to their own site. While most of these
people do not divulge their identities, a few are proud to do so. Some
attempt to shield themselves legally by stating that they are publicly
revealing the instructions as a First Amendment issue, ignoring the
moral implications of their actions.
First Amendment right to spread Terrorism
Probably the most infamous is a Carnegie Mellon University professor,
David Touretzky, who is continuing to mirror a website originally put
up by Sherman Austin, an anarchist who was arrested by the FBI and is
now in prison for putting the bomb instructions on his website.
Although the FBI was able to get Austin to take down his site,
Touretzky still has it on the official Carnegie Mellon University
website.
But not only did this professor put up the site but he even went
further and added his own instructions and other information on atom
bomb construction.
Carnegie Mellon University apparently is very familiar with this site
and defended it as a first amendment expression.
WPXI.com - Target 11 - CMU Professor's Web Site Causing Controversy
The Tartan - Author of explosives guide may serve jail time; CMU
professor supports him
Carnegie Mellon University is a major taxpayer-subsidized university
which continues to allow the professor to spread bomb making
information on the university's system to anyone; and the above news
story shows the university is aware of the website.
Taxpayers Supporting Cyberterrorism
While Touretzky placed "disclaimers" on the university site to not
follow their easy instructions and make the bombs, it doesn't change
the fact that teenagers, terrorist wannabes, and school shooters can
easily find and could use these instructions to make bombs and
potentially kill others or themselves.
A quick search of Yahoo shows very high ranking of Touretzky's and
Carnegie Mellon's bomb-making section, meaning those pages have been
linked from more web sites and "clicked-through" more often in searches
for explosives information:
Fuel fertilizer explosives N. 1 rank
Drano bomb N. 1
Molotov cocktail N. 5 rank
Homemade explosives N. 10
Carnegie Mellon University and government funding bodies that are
supporting this university and Touretzky should be alerted to this
problem.
Public funding should be revoked if the university continues to refuse
to do anything about its bomb promoting professor.
It is of concern and disturbing to see how easy it is for kids (and
anyone else) to find bomb making materials on the web and I thought
this outrage ought to be exposed. One teenager in his basement posting
stuff from a book is scary enough but when a college's website which
clearly shows .edu in the URL is used and bomb making instruction are
given the academic imprimatur, then it is no longer a personal issue.
I think you'll agree this isn't a First Amendment issue but rather
a security issue. And the most disturbing issue is why the university
has apparently refused to shut down this do-it-yourself-death site and
taken disciplinary actions against the professor who put it up.
It is your tax money that is funding such a form of cyberterrorism.