[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Clinton worries about Internet and biochem weapo

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

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Date:          Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:19:33 -0400
To:            politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From:          Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:       FC: Clinton worries about Internet and biochem weapons, genocide
Reply-to:      declan@well.com

I note the leader of the free world doesn't seem too worried about
terrorists going to the public library and reading US Army battlefield
explosives manuals. More on the Clinton administration and its
attempts to restrict bomb-making info online:

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,592,00.html
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,12032,00.html

-Declan

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http://library.whitehouse.gov/PressReleases.cgi?date=1&briefing=0

                           THE WHITE HOUSE

                    Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                          April 6, 1999     


                      REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
                     AT HATE CRIMES ANNOUNCEMENT

                        The Roosevelt Room   

10:51 A.M. EDT

[...]

So what I worry about all the time is whether 
terrorists can get on the Internet and figure out how to make 
chemical and biological weapons to pursue agendas against people of
different ethnic or religious groups.  And so it's very humbling, I
think, for those of us who think we have brought the modern world, and
prosperity and rationality to all of human affairs, to see what is
going on in the Balkans, and to see these terrible examples of
violence here in our own country. 

[...]


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