Kevin Mitnick anybody? how about Dimiti Skylarov? or Bernie S, go read up on them before you go extoling the virtues of the US Gov't's wonderful anti-terrorism, anti-piracy, laws to keep the american public all safely wrapped in cotton wool (sic).

Bernie S in particular, has/had a number of books on chemistry and so on (about 6 out of the few thousand he had) which did include information about explosives, one of the USSS Officers who were involved in one of the raids on Bernie's house has been quoted as saying to the judge "We found a substance which appeared to be composition C4 plastic explosive in the subject's house, upon later analysis it was found that it WASN'T composition C4, but the fact that it COULD have been concerned us deeply" to which the judge DIDN'T BAT AN EYELID.

Kevin Mitnick was held for 4 YEARS (most of which in solitary confinement) without being convicted of ANYTHING, he was held in solitary confinement because one of the Law Enforcement officers at the trial told the judge that he could start a NUCLEAR WAR by WHISTLING INTO A TELEPHONE.

Dimitri Sklyarov is a RUSSIAN citizen, he wrote a tool which defeated Adobe's eBook 'encryption' format (encryption which could/can be easily broken with nothing but a PEN AND PAPER), an 'encryption' scheme which was/is ILLEGAL in Russia, where the tool was written primarily so blind people could read Adobe eBooks, he flew to the US for a conference in which he'd be talking about the program, he didn't have ANY source OR executables or for that matter information about the program in his posession, he was arrested by the FBI the moment he stepped off the plane for violation of the DMCA ("Digital Millenium Copyright Act").

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