Ah that takes me back :)
Early days of the internet, reading the Anarchists Cookbook whilst waiting for early 90's internet porn to load.
Apparently you can get prosecuted for owning that document now.
Scary times.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 15:18,
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Berkeley tells you all
bnrg.cs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Courses/CS39K.S13/anarchistcookbook2000.pdf
also, original book seems to still be legal in UK and US.
www.amazon.co.uk/The-Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1607964813
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It's legal in the UK except when it isn't.
A publication deemed "useful" for terrorism is illegal if the police decide you are thinking terroristy thoughts when you download it, but presumably is legal if you aren't.
Of course if you aren't bad then you wouldn't have it.
Terrorism act section 2 3(b)
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/11/section/2
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when they've used this in court, they've usually failed to prove terroristy intent
unless you build a bomb or some other physical act, they can't touch yer
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People have been prosicuted for owning the book
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7030096.stm
Seeing as a lot of the "material for terrorist purposes" could be half the stuff in your kitchen I wouldn't want to chance it.
Also Powell has asked for it to stop being sold.
Didn't know he was a teenager when he wrote it.
www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/dec/18/why-anarchist-cookbook-author-william-powell-off-shelves
Besides i've heard a lot of the circuit diagrams and recipes are designed to "fail".
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 16:38,
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I would like to see that defense: "It isn't illegal because it isn't useful for terrorism".
But an undergrad level chemistry textbook is.
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Scary!
The act is so loosely worded, I get the feeling just reading the act is an act of terrorism. Surely it cant be right to make it illegal to read a book and think about crime! Thoughtcrime!
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twochopbob In denial since, Mon 27 Oct 2014, 18:31,
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