eBay monitors bomb buyers

[elgato]

Online auction site eBay will not say whether it tipped off law enforcers about an alleged Victorian home bomb maker, but says it works very closely with police in monitoring bomb shopping suspects.

Spokesman Daniel Filer says the company monitors activities of its buyers and sellers and can detect when someone is buying items needed to make a bomb.

"And when people are buying all the right ingredients, it's a lot easier for us to detect that than, say, if they bought it from different hardware stores all around Melbourne," Filer told ABC Radio. "So we pass that information on to the police. We work with them closely."

Phillip John Marsh, 32, from Castlemaine, in central Victoria, on Tuesday was charged with recklessly endangering life, reckless conduct endangering serious injury and four charges of possessing explosive substances.

Marsh told an out-of-sessions court hearing in Castlemaine he had no intention of committing terrorism or creating a bomb and only wanted to make fireworks.

He was remanded to appear at Bendigo Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

http://www.cio.com.au/article/395071/ebay_monitors_bomb_buyers/

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