From: Osher Doctorow (osher@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 10:14:15 MDT
From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sat. July13, 2002 9:19AM
Harvey,
This is very interesting. Could you post some indications of the sources of
the information?
Also, if chemists working for the government are that stupid, is it possible
that Ingenious Imitation has been emphasized in the scientific and political
communities far much more than Creative Genius?
Osher Doctorow
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: anthrax blooper
>
> On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 04:24 am, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> > Speaking of the Oz Science Show, a convincing report today sez the FBI
> > know full well who did the anthrax attack and won't act because it would
> > open up a can of US military germ warfare worms. Clue: the attack not
> > only
> > followed the protocols described in that advance report by one of their
> > guys, it *also failed to take account of factors missed by that
> > analysis*.
> > Thus, the report didn't know spores would migrate thru envelope paper
> > when
> > letters were mechanically squeezed during sorting. In fact, the
> > perpetrator
> > taped them tightly shut *and included letters saying what the victim had
> > been infected by and warning them to get suitable antibiotic treatment
> > immediately*. In other words, no intention of doing real hard, let alone
> > murder, just a wake-up call and plea for more $$$ for such
> > research--which
> > has worked a treat, as it happens.
> >
> > Let's hope the frustrated researcher who eventually does the same with
> > nano
> > replicators has better success in predicting the course of the action.
> >
> > Damien Broderick
>
> This sounds like an extension of the story heard here in the U.S, or at
> least here in Florida. A security consultant in Florida was being
> investigated because he warned about this threat long before it
> occurred. His contracts with the government were terminated a while ago
> and they never implemented his suggestions. The anthrax attacks looked
> so similar to what he was warning, that they investigated him under the
> theory that he might have been just demonstrating that his theories were
> possible. The investigation turned up no evidence of this, however. It
> was just a theory.
>
> --
> Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
>
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