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...some circles the techno-bashing Unabomber has become a cultural hero. Nowhere is that irony more apparent than on the technological frontier of the Internet. There, copies of the manifesto are as abundant as flame wars. One site offers a Unabomber theme song, another invites people to attend an upcoming online birthday party for Kaczynski, and a third gives away free "Official Unabomber" screen savers that include "fashion tips" and other surprises. "It's dynamite," promises Corey Deitz, the Cleveland FM-radio jock who helped create the computer program...
...Brother. He never saw the comeuppance of IBM and the liberation of the Arpanet, the computer network built for the military-industrial complex. Arpanet mutated into the people's network, the Internet, something so decentralized and anarchic it appears to be torn from the very pages of the manifesto. "It's too bad that Ted Kaczynski, assuming he's the One, was not into the Net," laments one alt.fan. "He could have spent many hours flaming away at Netheads and other techies rather than trying to blow them...
...known that, alas, the typefaces did not match, although they had high hopes for a third typewriter, discovered later. What they did not mention was that nestled next to that third machine in Kaczynski's loft was something that made lesser discoveries moot: a manuscript of the manifesto itself...
...livid that the news was leaked. But do not doubt that hundreds of federal and state investigators, caught up for weeks in the frustrating experience of trying to square the past 18 years of Kaczynski's life with the Unabomber's attacks, are celebrating the discovery of the manifesto amid a mother lode of incriminating evidence. Last Thursday, when the Justice Department named New Jersey First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary to lead the team that will prosecute Kaczynski, the hot speculation was over whether the initial prosecution would take place in Cleary's state, where the Unabomber murdered...
...manuscript's discovery will make prosecution a much surer bet. Initial tests have indicated it was typed on the typewriter next to it; and the FBI had previously determined by examining the manifesto sent to the papers, the Unabomber's missives to various newspapers and a gloating note to one victim that all three emerged from the same machine. In fact, lying next to the treatise in the cabin was a version of one of the bomber's letters to the New York Times. As America's trial watchers are aware, there is no such thing as a sure thing...