Student downloaded Al-Queda magazine.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....it-would-contain.html

Do you believe he was just being curious or was there a more serious intent?

Why would he need to use specialist software to securely wipe the file from the computer, surely just erasing the file in the usual way would be enough for his sister not to be able to retrieve the file, but perhaps not the police?

[Brenden]

For what reason did the police raid his home - cannot believe it was because he downloaded a file -

[Mick-Talbot]

If it was because he downloaded a file ....should I be worried about my Haysi Fantayzee downloads ?


How can anyone make a judgement on what you have provided AOG?

[Kromovaracun]

"Why would he need to use specialist software to securely wipe the file from the computer, surely just erasing the file in the usual way would be enough for his sister not to be able to retrieve the file, but perhaps not the police? "

We can't really answer that without knowinge exactly what the 'specialist software' is and what exactly it does.

"Do you believe he was just being curious or was there a more serious intent? "

I don't know. But I don't thinking downloading AQ literature is particularly strong evidence of 'serious intent'. On my computer (and until recently on my e-reader) I have a copy of Mein Kampf, and various white supremacist websites would turn up in my browsing history if you looked hard enough. I also own numerous books on serial killers and mass murderers in both electronic and paperback form. You could quite easily put those things into a newspaper article and portray me as an extremely dangerous person - but none of them (as I hope is evident to regular users of this site) is any worthwhile evidence as to my political views, my attitude to other human beings or my intentions. If we're worried about terrorist intent, there are much more reliable forms of evidence for it.

[jake-the-peg]

I think we're heading down a dangerous road when we prosecute people for reading something whatever it may be.An awful lot of people have read Mein Kampf.

If you start sending people to gaol becauseof what you think they might do rather than something they've done or are definately planning to do - then we've lost

I can quite understand someone securely erasing it afterwards for exactly this reaction

[Brenden]

I think I read he burned a cd of the file.

[Kromovaracun]

^ Very well put, Jake. I agree entirely.

[anotheoldgit]

Mick-Talbot

/// How can anyone make a judgement on what you have provided AOG? ///

At least I did provide a link, that is more than some do.

And I am not asking anyone to make a judgement that is for the jury to decide on what is after all a ongoing trial, I was simply asking for comments.

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

/// I think we're heading down a dangerous road when we prosecute people for reading something whatever it may be. ///

What an amazing thing to say, given half the chance there are some on this site who if given the chance, would willingly prosecute or even worse , anyone reading the 'DAILY MAIL'.

[rojash]

"Do you believe he was just being curious or was there a more serious intent? "
"I am not asking anyone to make a judgement"

Hmmm...

[sandyRoe]

Surely Daily Mail readers are more to be pitied than anything else?

[Brenden]

So much for freedom of choice sandy.

[Mick-Talbot]

Mick-Talbot

/// How can anyone make a judgement on what you have provided AOG? ///

At least I did provide a link, that is more than some do.

And I am not asking anyone to make a judgement that is for the jury to decide on what is after all a ongoing trial, I was simply asking for comments.








Do you believe he was just being curious or was there a more serious intent?




Lol

[Brenden]

Can I ask what paper/s you read sandy so we can comment on your choice - it gets a bit wearing all this banging on about one particular newspaper.

[Brenden]

p.s the Telegraph is also running the story.

[pdust]

*Do you believe he was just being curious or was there a more serious intent? *

i dont think anyone can really answer that aog but i have a mate who has a book called anarchists cookbook it tells you among other things how to make explosives i believe.... hes read it and lent it out to loads of people but none of them as far as i know had or have any intention of making bombs..... i think they mainly read it out of curiosity

as to him wiping it from his pc, i think if i read something like that (which i wouldnt) or even read an online version of the book my mate has i would be thinking "crap should i wipe my pc in case someone thinks i read it for serious reasons..."

[sandyRoe]

The Irish News & The Belfast Telegraph are my newspapers.

[jno]

do they still run features on how to make explosives, sandy?

[sandyRoe]

The Anarchists Cookbook was largely based on Home Guard type material. Nobody could have ever found a recipe for revolution in its pages.

[sandyRoe]

JNO, are you not thinking of the earlier issues of Republican News?