I heard a snippet on the radio news, said this man had hid the cyncide and gotten a group of hackers together to do hacking "just for fun".
It also said they had caused electric to stop, many times and that it cost $800,000. to get it back on.
The above link will also allow you to go the news, and read that he was sentenced today to 7 years. granny.............
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Newsgroups: alt.true-crime From: "Michael Newton" - Find messages by this author Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:30:02 GMT Local: Wed, Mar 13 2002 1:30 am Subject: "Dr. Chaos" Federal prosecutors want 'Dr. Chaos' to remain locked up
By Mike Robinson Associated Press
Last updated 04:14 AM, EST, Wednesday, March 13, 2002
CHICAGO (AP) -- Prosecutors want a court to deny bond for the self-styled "Dr. Chaos" accused of stashing more than a pound of potentially lethal cyanide powder in a Chicago subway tunnel.
Joseph Konopka, 25, was scheduled to appear Wednesday before federal Magistrate Judge Edward A. Bobrick on a charge of possessing a chemical weapon, one scientists said could produce a deadly cloud of gas.
Prosecutors said they would ask Bobrick to deny bond for Konopka, a fugitive from Wisconsin who police there have accused of going on a five-county rampage of vandalism. They claim that he is dangerous and a flight risk.
Konopka could fight in court for release on bail from the Metropolitan Correctional Center or waive his right to a bond.
Konopka, formerly of De Pere, Wis., was arrested Saturday in a steam tunnel under the University of Illinois-Chicago Education Building. Police had staked out the tunnel after campus burglaries.
A 15-year-old arrested with Konopka told police and FBI agents that cyanide was stashed in a passageway in a Chicago Transit Authority subway tunnel, prompting a three-hour shutdown of the CTA's Blue Line, authorities said.
FBI agents said they found the cache a block from the federal courthouse.
It contained enough potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide to create a cloud of lethal gas that could kill everyone in a small house once acid were added, scientists said. They said a canister purportedly containing acid also found in the passageway would be enough to produce the deadly cloud.
"It would be a very big puff," said Professor Wade Freeman of the University of Illinois-Chicago chemistry department. "Released in a confined space with a lot of people, it could be disastrous."
FBI spokesman Ross Rice said agents were searching for the source of the cyanide as well as the method by which Konopka obtained keys he used to open transit-system doors that were thought secure.
Freeman said cyanide was once readily available at the drugstore but that chemical suppliers now are more careful about potential customers. But he said a skilled con artist might be able to persuade one of dozens of supply houses throughout the country to sell cyanide to him.
It also might be stolen off loading docks, he said.
Security experts said the case raises serious security questions.
"Am I concerned as a private citizen? Definitely," said Violet Smith, former president of the Chicago chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security. "My first two questions would be where did he get the stuff and how available is it?"
Meanwhile, Door County, Wis., District Attorney Tim Funnell said Konopka was wanted in Door, Shawano, Kewanee and Marquette Counties on vandalism charges and was convicted of another offense in Brown County.
He said Konopka had vandalized power stations and communications towers because "he is an anarchist -- he is sort of disillusioned with society in general and disillusioned with the way society worked and the way government worked," Funnell said. "This is his way of protesting."
Sgt. Teri Vogel of the Door County sheriff's police said Konopka waged a campaign of arson and vandalism at power stations and cellular telephone towers, sometimes using sophisticated flammable chemicals. Vogel said several counties formed a task force just to investigate Konopka.
Vogel said Konopka, who is skilled with computers and had worked in the computer security business, is brilliant but dangerous.
"He definitely has a capability or propensity to do mass destruction," Vogel said. He said Konopka had jumped bond last June, causing his grandmother and other relatives to lose money they posted.
Authorities said he has been living in Chicago's subway.
UPDATE...
December 1, 2005
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4185364&nav=1sW7
AP
"Dr. Chaos sentenced to seven more years in prison"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MILWAUKEE A man serving a 13-year prison sentence for hiding bottles of cyanide in Chicago subway tunnels was ordered to serve another seven years in federal prison for damaging computers, power plants and radio towers in Wisconsin.
Twenty-nine-year-old Joseph Konopka (kah-NOP'-kah) is a former computer systems administrator who went by the online name "Doctor Chaos."
Prosecutors said Konopka and a group of young followers were responsible for 28 power outages affecting 30-thousand customers in northeastern Wisconsin in 1999."