Design of bombs targeting Trump critics came from Internet: source

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



OCTOBER 25, 2018 / 4:40 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators believe that the design and instructions for building the bombs sent to several critics of U.S. President Donald Trump this week were taken from the internet, a federal law enforcement official told Reuters on Thursday.

The instructions for such devices are widely available on websites and in propaganda distributed by Islamic militant groups including Al Qaeda and ISIS, said the official and a former federal government bomb expert.

The federal official also said the designs could have been lifted from “The Anarchist Cookbook,” a notorious bomb and hacker manual dating to the early 1970s.

There was no claim of responsibility for the spate bombs, none of which exploded.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-packages-design/design-of-bombs-targeting-trump-critics-came-from-internet-source-idUSKCN1MZ306

[PoliticAverse]

1. What uninformed speculation passes for news. n/t

[jberryhill]

26. It's worse than uninformed

It's downright stupid:

"The federal official also said the designs could have been lifted from “The Anarchist Cookbook,” a notorious bomb and hacker manual dating to the early 1970s."

First off, back in grad school I picked up a copy of that book for shits and giggles, and the likelihood of making a functional anything from it is extremely low. IMHO, people go on about that book in order to divert would-be miscreants into an enterprise where they are more likely to hurt themselves than anything else.

Secondly, the most obvious stupidity here is that small coin-battery-operated digital clocks of the type used by Sayoc did not even exist in the early 1970's, and so it is pretty bleedingly apparent that whatever Sayoc was up to did not come from that book.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Yup.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Again, Dunning Kruger.

Some Trump supporter figured it would be good to send off bombs to everyone on Trump's regular hit list.

Not a master bomb maker, he goes to the internet and finds the first thing he thinks is a functional explosive and attempts to build it.

He sends it out, bad spelling and all, and the rest is history.

This is no criminal mastermind. This is a stupid person who doesn't know he is stupid.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. A stupid person's idea of a smart person

[Racerdog1]

10. That narrows it down

That only describes about every orange asshole supporter.

[reACTIONary]

12. And the labels were printed..

.. there's a good chance that they know the MIC of the printer, and where and when it was purchased .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

[Cha]

15. +1! Did they even use gloves? Someone

mentioned "..fingerprints on the tape that held the bombs together..".

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2186751

[efhmc]

16. "This is a stupid person who doesn't know he is stupid." So a DJT copycat??

nt

[ck4829]

24. Called it

[Progressive Jones]

4. "There was no claim of responsibility for the spate bombs, none of which exploded. "

This is how we know these bombs came from a right winger.
Righties are weak and cowardly. A true "revolutionary" that really believed in their cause, would love to claim responsibility.

Edit for spelling error.

[osmium]

5. Jeebus H. Keerist..*sigh*

That's freakin' weak.

Third turn in a game of "telephone:"

"The Internet made the bombs."

[PoliticAverse]

6. The fact that the source added...

the designs could have been lifted from “The Anarchist Cookbook,”

indicates they have no clue where the design came from.

[osmium]

9. Agreed. But my point is..

..That lots of people don't read, much less comprehend if they do, so seeing the headline(C&P from source): Design of bombs targeting Trump critics came from Internet: source, I can see this turning weird really quickly.

As a really germane example I offer the following: "Al Gore said he invented the Internet." That's patently false, but wide swaths of the electorate believe that Gore said that very thing. Why? "Telephone." Secondary sources that for whatever reason disseminated erroneous information. Of course there are even more egregious variants of my above example, such as: "Al Gore invented the Internet." That even a few people believe this is very telling. Humans don't communicate very well under laboratory conditions. When ideas/facts are released into the wild, it's anyone's guess where and how the info will land.

I think my case is too valid to dismiss; and I wasn't even being serious

[LiberalArkie]

8. I wonder why no one has sent white phosphorus in an air tight bag yet.

Or maybe the white powder is white phosphorus but a poor grade.

[duforsure]

11. Whoever ,

Sent these will pay a price for it.

[Chemisse]

13. 30 year minimum, I gather.

And with fingerprint all over the tape that held the bombs together - just for starters - I expect the culprit(s) will be behind bars pretty promptly.

All about what we could expect from a Trumpite - violent and stupid.

[Cha]

14. The MAGABombers didn't use gloves?!

[Chemisse]

19. Actually, the expert I was listening to pointed out that it was pretty hard to use gloves with tape.

And perhaps the culprit thought the evidence would be destroyed in the explosion.

[Cha]

22. Makes sense.. Thanks, Chemisse That

makes a good point that the magabomber thought it would detonate.

[PSPS]

17. trump is warming up his pardon pen

[Chemisse]

20. Oh yes. A foolish prank. Boys will be boys, after all.

And nobody was hurt, so really what was the harm?

I can just picture him saying something along those lines.

[ck4829]

25. Very fine person

[Merlot]

18. "Critics of U.S.President..." REALLY?

Not "people the U.S. President has unrelentingly criticized?"

[Chemisse]

21. Good point! n/t

[ck4829]

23. Kick