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The recipes cooked by Vice were not recipes from the book, the were recipes from the electronic version which bears little resemblance to the printed version.

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Could you elaborate on this?

The Anarchist Cookbook is the title of a dead-tree book, which the article is about.

The Anarchist Cookbook is also the title of an unaffiliated text file containing explosives recipes.

And yet the Anarchist's Cookbook, the original that is, is widely available in electronic form. Are you saying there is another file, that is also widely read, that also contains explosive recipes, that is also titled "The Anarchist's Cookbook", that is completely unrelated to the original?

Yes. Several of them, actually. This has led to lots of confusion, though the original recipes are hardly any less safe.

See here: http://www.anarchistcookbookz.com/the-anarchist-cookbook-faq...

Thanks for the info. The narrator of the Vice Guide episode claims that the paper version was appropriated into the electronic version so I got the impression that these experiments where related to book mentioned in the guardian article. Confusing.

interesting! this link should be at the top of the thread since at least half of the people in this discussion seem to be talking about the electronic version(s).

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