>Walker was accused of violating the Terrorism Act because he possessed information “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.”
What a dumb law. I guess they could prosecute you for reading Wikipedia on that basis.
I vaguely remember something similar going on at my school way back when, though that might have been The Hacker's Handbook. Probably still enough to freak out the authorities these days, yet remarkably, I'm not aware that any of my class went on to become evil masterminds with secret underground lairs.
I remember this being passed around between kids in the computer science lab on a floppy disk when I was about 13.