Early this morning I received the following email (name and email changed to protect the guilty): From: XXX YYY [mailto:xxxyyy@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 1:52 AMTo: blog@joehuffman.orgSubject: removal of blog post Dear Joe, I would like to ask you … Continue reading
I sort of ran out of snark for these sort of things and they have just sat around in my Inbox “forever”. Some I would have turned over to law enforcement but it has been so rare that I have … Continue reading
I received a request for help making a bomb this morning: —–Original Message—–From: [someone] @hotmail.co.ukSent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:21 AMTo: joeh@boomershoot.orgSubject: Bomb making Hi I have recently saw your website regarding bomb making.I was pretty confused by it to … Continue reading
I’ve updated the Bomb Help 2005 web page. There are a lot more I need to put up–including a bunch from 2006. I just haven’t gotten around to getting their email and my responses on the website. I just hadn’t … Continue reading
Yesterday I got a call from some reporter at a Boston area newspaper, The Enterprise. She was looking at the title to this web page: Want Some Help Building a Bomb? In a very hesitant voice she ask, “Why would … Continue reading
It appears I forgot to post this request for help building a bomb. I BCC’d the Bomb Help Fan Club email alias and intended to post a note here about it too but I forgot.
Read all about it here.
After reading the email to her this morning Barb asked me if there really are people that stupid. I don’t know about stupid but he certainly is clueless.
I ran one of the tools I have on the bomb help log files (see also this). What I find most interesting is the weekly data here.
I just had a counter intelligence (CI) guy leave my office. He viewed my graphs, some of the email I receive, and described it as “a mini gold mine”. He was pleased I have information going back to 2000, that the … Continue reading
Actually Boomershoot.org is. Do a google search (without the quotes) for “simple bomb help”. Same with Yahoo. Same with Ask Jeeves. I’m wondering if something like search engine placement is causing some of the flucuations in the number of searches … Continue reading
Yesterday I received an email from a book author wanting to know what a homemade bomb used to assassinate someone would look like. She didn’t want to know the details of how to build it. She just wanted to know … Continue reading
From my Bomb Help email folder: From: Peter Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:47 AMTo: joeh@boomershoot.orgSubject: let make thing happen Hello… My name is peter and i am really sad because the mothers in my hood simple told thier … Continue reading
I might have done some good today without even knowing it. While I was busy riding the exercise bike at the health club and listening to Atlas Shrugged I received three pieces of email from a 12 year-old kid. It … Continue reading
I put a webbug in my email about the kid in Austin wanting to build a pipe bomb. I finally got a hit on it that traced back to the city of Austin: 162.89.0.60 – – [03/Jan/2005:21:31:09 +0000] “GET /austin.gif … Continue reading
I get ‘interesting’ email sometimes. I’ve posted about it before but this one is a bit more amusing (to me anyway) than most. As usual I put the entire thread (minus a few details that make it impractical anyone to … Continue reading