Washington Post story on Joseph Popp; FYI

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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 14:39

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From:  The Washington Post, February 4, 1990. Page 18.
Byline Reuter.

  "Cleveland, [Ohio] Feb. 3 -- An anthropologist accused of
international computer fraud involving information about AIDS and a
possible computer virus was held without bail while a judge considered
reports on his sanity, authorities said today."
  "Joseph Popp, 39, appeared before a U. S. magistrate to face charges
that the computer disk he created was part of an international
blackmail scheme, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Arbeznik."
  "The Cleveland Plain Dealer said that Popp, while in England, mail
the IBM data disks to as many as 26,000 hospitals, businesses and
government agencies worldwide."
  "The disks claimed to provide information on AIDS prevention but at
the end of the computer program Popp allegedly said a computer virus
would be unleashed unless $378 was sent to a post office box in
Panama."

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