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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Safi

‘His ideas resonate’: how the Unabomber’s dangerous anti-tech manifesto lives on

Ted Kaczynski escorted by federal agents
‘The manifesto certainly had a lot more popular appeal than the FBI anticipated.’ Photograph: John Youngbear/AP

The bomb was disguised as a tangle of wooden planks and protruding nails, and when he encountered it in the car park behind his computer-repair store, Gary Wright thought nothing of pushing it from his path.

“I put my thumb and middle finger on the end and moved it,” he recalls. In this way alone, he was lucky. Had he reached over the top, he says, “I’d have no hand.”

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