Jeopardy in cyberspace

SOON after the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, so the story ran, Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect, was talking to his lawyers. He was asked why he had not bombed the federal building at night, when fewer would have died. Looking his questioner in the eye, Mr McVeigh is said to have replied: “That would not have gotten the point across to the government. We needed a body count to make our point.”