LEVEL 2 - 4 OF 260 STORIES Copyright 1996 The Columbus Dispatch The Columbus Dispatch April 29, 1996, Monday SECTION: NEWS LOCAL & NATIONAL, Pg. 1C LENGTH: 807 words HEADLINE: BLUEPRINTS FOR BOMBS ARE NOT HARD TO FIND BYLINE: Mike Lafferty, Dispatch Staff Reporter DATELINE: NEWARK, Ohio BODY: When an explosive device detonated April 19 in the bedroom of his home in nearby Hanover, Mark Treussler joined a small but growing number who have learned to build explosives from information available through computers. Licking County sheriff's detectives said Treussler was making a bomb. His parents said it was a rocket.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 Treussler, 17, lost part of a finger in the blast. Quick work by doctors at Grant Medical Center in Columbus and reconstructive surgery saved two other fingers. ''He said he was going to take it up the hill and throw it in the creek and see what it would do,'' detective Bruce Myers said of the device. ''He was trying to build a rocket. He learned a valuable lesson, but he learned the hard way,'' said Treussler's father, Ted. Rocket or [7m bomb, [0m Treussler told Myers he obtained [7m instructions [0m to make thedevice - using gunpowder and a carbon dioxide cartridge - from a computer diskette he obtained from a friend. Details on explosive mayhem are easy to find with a computer and a modem. A 30-second search on the [7m Internet [0m by a Dispatch staffer brought [7m instructions [0m for making a ''CO2 cartridge [7m bomb' [0m' and several other devices, including a ''liquid nitrogen rocket.'' Police say gunpowder and carbon dioxide bombs are popular [7m Internet [0m ordnance.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 A Westerville High School student was injured March 4 when a carbon dioxide bomb exploded in his hand. ''Just this week, from a Westland High School student I got a book of every conceivable type of bomb there is. He got it off the [7m Internet, [0m'' Franklin County sheriff's detective Al Judy said. ''Parents aren't seeing what their kidsare seeing on the [7m Internet. [0m'' Children built bombs before computers, but the connection between explosives and computers is worrying some police. ''We're talking about a lot of access here,'' Myers said. In Plainview, Texas, four juvenile bomb-makers blasted a pay telephone, some mailboxes and garbage cans with carbon dioxide and gunpowder bombs before policearrested them. Carbon dioxide and gunpowder bombs are effective. ''It opens a mailbox wide open. It probably would take your hand off, too,'' said Lt. Bobby Chandler of the Plainview Police Department.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 In March, two high school students in Shawnee, Kan., burned a 10-acre field next to their school. They had set it alight with a gasoline [7m bomb [0m constructed from home computer [7m instructions. [0m ''They were playing around, and it was so dry it got out of hand,'' Shawnee Police Capt. Leroy Davis said. In Manlius, a suburb of Syracuse, N.Y., three 13-year-olds were arrested as they plotted to set off a fertilizer bomb - a small version of the bomb that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 - in their junior high school. But juvenile officer Joseph Treglia of the Manlius Police Department said he wasn't worried about a trend. ''We don't have many kids plotting to blow up the junior high school,'' he said. Libraries have had books concerning bomb-making for years. ''The information has been out there for a long time,'' Treglia said.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 ''We have a tradition of freedom of speech in this country that information should be available and that it is up to the individual to use it responsibly.'' President Clinton expressed concerns about bomb-making information on the [7m Internet [0m at a recent news conference, and both Democrats and Republicans have expressed concerns in Congress. However, an effort in the Senate to amend the federal terrorism legislation to prohibit disseminating bomb-making information on the [7m Internet [0m failed. Censoring the network would be virtually impossible, said Mike Carpenter, director of marketing for EmiNet Domain, a Florida-based [7m Internet [0m service provider. A better solution, Carpenter said, is for parents to install software on their home computers that can check for key words - like ''grenade'' - that may be used in searches parents don't want their children to perform. Ted Treussler agrees that parents need to know what their children are doing with computers but, he said, it's impossible for parents to watch all the time. Mr. Treussler also opposes banning such information from the [7m Internet [0m because he is afraid of censorship.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 Ohio State University constitutional law expert David Goldberger doesn't think banning such information from the [7m Internet [0m is the right step. ''Under current First Amendment doctrine, it's a cost of doing business in a free society. This kind of information has been around for a long time,'' Goldberger said. ''The nut cases that are going to get it off [7m Internet [0m are going to find it in other ways. ''There's no question that it's a problem, but we're going to have to deal with parental controls and social controls rather than purge the [7m Internet [0m of everything people find worrisome, noxious and offensive,'' he said. LOAD-DATE: April 30, 1996 [H [H=[0m[2J LEVEL 1 - 4 OF 260 STORIES Copyright 1996 The Columbus Dispatch The Columbus Dispatch April 29, 1996, Monday SECTION: NEWS LOCAL & NATIONAL, Pg. 1C LENGTH: 807 words HEADLINE: BLUEPRINTS FOR BOMBS ARE NOT HARD TO FIND BYLINE: Mike Lafferty, Dispatch Staff Reporter DATELINE: NEWARK, Ohio BODY: When an explosive device detonated April 19 in the bedroom of his home in nearby Hanover, Mark Treussler joined a small but growing number who have learned to build explosives from information available through computers. Licking County sheriff's detectives said Treussler was making a bomb. His parents said it was a rocket.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 Treussler, 17, lost part of a finger in the blast. Quick work by doctors at Grant Medical Center in Columbus and reconstructive surgery saved two other fingers. ''He said he was going to take it up the hill and throw it in the creek and see what it would do,'' detective Bruce Myers said of the device. ''He was trying to build a rocket. He learned a valuable lesson, but he learned the hard way,'' said Treussler's father, Ted. Rocket or [7m bomb, [0m Treussler told Myers he obtained [7m instructions [0m to make thedevice - using gunpowder and a carbon dioxide cartridge - from a computer diskette he obtained from a friend. Details on explosive mayhem are easy to find with a computer and a modem. A 30-second search on the [7m Internet [0m by a Dispatch staffer brought [7m instructions [0m for making a ''CO2 cartridge [7m bomb' [0m' and several other devices, including a ''liquid nitrogen rocket.'' Police say gunpowder and carbon dioxide bombs are popular [7m Internet [0m ordnance.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 A Westerville High School student was injured March 4 when a carbon dioxide bomb exploded in his hand. ''Just this week, from a Westland High School student I got a book of every conceivable type of bomb there is. He got it off the [7m Internet, [0m'' Franklin County sheriff's detective Al Judy said. ''Parents aren't seeing what their kidsare seeing on the [7m Internet. [0m'' Children built bombs before computers, but the connection between explosives and computers is worrying some police. ''We're talking about a lot of access here,'' Myers said. In Plainview, Texas, four juvenile bomb-makers blasted a pay telephone, some mailboxes and garbage cans with carbon dioxide and gunpowder bombs before policearrested them. Carbon dioxide and gunpowder bombs are effective. ''It opens a mailbox wide open. It probably would take your hand off, too,'' said Lt. Bobby Chandler of the Plainview Police Department.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 In March, two high school students in Shawnee, Kan., burned a 10-acre field next to their school. They had set it alight with a gasoline [7m bomb [0m constructed from home computer [7m instructions. [0m ''They were playing around, and it was so dry it got out of hand,'' Shawnee Police Capt. Leroy Davis said. In Manlius, a suburb of Syracuse, N.Y., three 13-year-olds were arrested as they plotted to set off a fertilizer bomb - a small version of the bomb that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 - in their junior high school. But juvenile officer Joseph Treglia of the Manlius Police Department said he wasn't worried about a trend. ''We don't have many kids plotting to blow up the junior high school,'' he said. Libraries have had books concerning bomb-making for years. ''The information has been out there for a long time,'' Treglia said.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 ''We have a tradition of freedom of speech in this country that information should be available and that it is up to the individual to use it responsibly.'' President Clinton expressed concerns about bomb-making information on the [7m Internet [0m at a recent news conference, and both Democrats and Republicans have expressed concerns in Congress. However, an effort in the Senate to amend the federal terrorism legislation to prohibit disseminating bomb-making information on the [7m Internet [0m failed. Censoring the network would be virtually impossible, said Mike Carpenter, director of marketing for EmiNet Domain, a Florida-based [7m Internet [0m service provider. A better solution, Carpenter said, is for parents to install software on their home computers that can check for key words - like ''grenade'' - that may be used in searches parents don't want their children to perform. Ted Treussler agrees that parents need to know what their children are doing with computers but, he said, it's impossible for parents to watch all the time. Mr. Treussler also opposes banning such information from the [7m Internet [0m because he is afraid of censorship.[H [H=[0m[2J The Columbus Dispatch, April 29, 1996 Ohio State University constitutional law expert David Goldberger doesn't think banning such information from the [7m Internet [0m is the right step. ''Under current First Amendment doctrine, it's a cost of doing business in a free society. This kind of information has been around for a long time,'' Goldberger said. ''The nut cases that are going to get it off [7m Internet [0m are going to find it in other ways. ''There's no question that it's a problem, but we're going to have to deal with parental controls and social controls rather than purge the [7m Internet [0m of everything people find worrisome, noxious and offensive,'' he said. LOAD-DATE: April 30, 1996 [H