Conference 7.286::digital

    from todays UK livewire :
    
    ADVERTISING CHIEF KILLED IN 16-YEAR BOMBS CAMPAIGN
    
    Thomas Mosser, of advertising and communications company Young &
    Rubicam, was decapitated when a parcel he was opening in his kitchen
    exploded.  FBI sources believe the explosion was the result of a parcel
    bomb sent by a person who has been sending devices to academics and
    business people for some 16 years.  The bomber has been dubbed the
    "Unabomber" and has already killed twice before.  It is thought the
    bomber harbours a deep resentment against modern technology and the
    FBI has speculated that Mr Mosser's death may be linked with relationships
    forged by Young & Rubicam with two of America's largest computer firms,
    Digital Equipment Corporation and Xerox Corporation.  The bomber
    usually leaves the initials "FC" engraved on his bombs which may
    represent an obscene phrase belittling computers.
    
    The Times, London.  13th December 1994
    International Herald Tribune, London.  13th December 1994
    

    More information about the series of bombings is supposed to be
    located out on the INTERNET. 

  >  I'm really just concerned about the link to the Company.  Is there
  >  anything that Digital employees should know, or do in response to this
    
   Perhaps you could start by getting your priorities straightened out.
    
    Kit

    Re .3 - I don't get it

    I don't think the bombing had anything to do with Digital, its
    customers, or employees.  I'd have to guess that was just a mistake
    in the CBS Evening News control room.  I have not seem Digital's
    name/logo associated with any reports on the bombing.
    
    				-John

    
    It didn't. The news article simply stated that that firm the person
    blown up worked for just won two major contracts with Digital and
    Xerox.
    
    chet

From memory, which like my hair is going:
The bomber is known by the FBI as "Unabomb". Has now killed 2 people.
Targets are universities, small computer stores, and individuals associated
with engineering/computers. Long article in PLAYBOY (of all places), believe
December issue. See your local library to read.

And no I can't type it in since the magazine is still at my brothers house.

/jon

>    Re .3 - I don't get it

Oh, the author of .3 apparently didn't like the basenoter saying that he was
"only concerned about the link to the company".  While I doubt the basenoter
meant anything by it, someone whose dog had peed in their wheaties that
morning might have thought that the basenoter was being crass about the
person who was killed and his family, or the potential danger to other
victims of the bomber.

/john

    Thanks - I guess I'm being crass and insensitive as well or else didn't
    read the original note closely enough.
    
    I think it goes without saying that we all feel sadness, sympathy and
    outrage at this senseless killing.
    
    Axel

    
    On "Hardcopy" last night (now don't accuse me of watching this trash,
    it came on after the news, I was feeding the baby and the remote 
    control wasn't in reach), they said: "(the ad agency) had recently
    won contracts from two of America's largest high technology firms, 
    Xerox and Digital Equipment Corporation".
    
    

  What ad agency was the bomb victim an executive with? Is this the agency that
is doing the "Whatever it takes" ads?

    re .11
    
    I believe Young and Rubicam is the advertising agency for the PCBU.
    
    bj

    You can read about this on the INTERNET. Access the FBI homepage
    http://naic.nasa.gov/fbi/FBI_homepage.html and select UNABOM or to 
    got directly to UNABOM home page open URL
    http://naic.nasa.gov/fbi/unabom.html. It doesn't appear to have been
    updated with the latest incident but does have info on incidents up
    till June 1993, including the sketch of the suspect.
    
    Wes

    
    
    Is it me, or is the news coverage of this incident completely idiotic.
    Early in the week all the news reports indicated a "breakthrough", 
    namely that the FBI had the postmark on the package. Yesterday morning
    on CBS News, it was reported with a straight face that the FBI was
    disapointed that the return address on the bomb turned out to be
    a fictious individual.
    
    I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but was there an expectation that a mail bomb
    would have an accurate return address on it?
    
    /ljj

>    I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but was there an expectation that a mail bomb
>    would have an accurate return address on it?
    
Probably.  I've always wondered about the (possible urben legend) guy who
wrote a hold-up note on the back of his electric bill :)

    If I found a return address on a mail bomb, I'd be reasonably certain
    that I had in my hand the name of someone who WASN'T the bomber.
    
    
    \dave

    The part that offends me is that IF the address on the parcel fragment
    HAD BEEN correct, the announcement by the FBI would have permitted 
    the bomber time for flight.
    
    Parcel bombs are quite nastly since Du Pont sheet explosive is quite
    thin.  The old days of having to iron flat your dynamite sticks is long 
    gone.  As the commercial explosives make bomb making easier, it may 
    encourage the amateur.  It used to be that bomb-making was
    self-limiting, like those "weathermen" in NY City who blew themselves
    up many years ago while making bombs.

    It's worse than that. If you go into the FBI homepage, it outlines
    the cronology of the incidents, gives a description of the bomb, and
    even a GIF file of the suspected culpret!  Sure they got a file
    that indicates I was in looking, maybe the bomber too......
    
    ain't the doubleya doubleya doubleya GRAND!!!!!!
    
    Hope they catch the slimy sob.
    
    chet