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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  Observer | Murdoch's Mr Moneybags
One key figure NDS tried to recruit was Boris Floricic, the outstanding hacker of his generation who belonged to the infamous German group Chaos Computer Club.
Floricic was found hanging from a tree in a Berlin park in October 1998.
As soon as Canal Plus filed its lawsuit, Peled, who, despite his ultra-serious persona, is described by colleagues as a 'lot of fun', was hauled from the comfort of lucrative anonymity into the glare of a suspicious, often anti-Murdoch press.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4479386-102271,00.html   (1285 words)

  
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 .:.:. News Article .:.:.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The case has its parallels with the death of Boris Floricic, a member of Germany's Chaos Computer Club in 1998, SC Infosecurity Newswire notes.
Floricic was found in a Berlin park in October of that year, after hanging himself using his own belt.
Police quickly called that case suicide too, even though his friends and family said the 26-year-old was in perfect mental health and could not have strung himself up in the position he was found in.
www.intellectnetworks.com /nojava/news/news_article_448.htm   (228 words)

  
 NETKWESTIES ---- MAGAZINE OVER VRIJHEID, RECHTEN EN REGELS OP INTERNET
Zonder twijfel was Boris Floricic, alias 'Tron', een van de briljantste hackers uit de Duitse scene.
Boris leidde een schijnbaar zorgenloos leventje, totdat hij op zaterdag 17 oktober 1998 's middags even het huis verliet om naar de brievenbus te gaan.
Ook vreemd is dat Boris op zaterdagmiddag nog in een café werd gesignaleerd met twee onbekende mannen.
www.netkwesties.nl /editie31/artikel3.html   (838 words)

  
  P4 “BETA TEST” card received by some consumers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A few weeks later, in October of 1998, Floricic was found dead, hanging from a tree in a Berlin park.
But the fact that Floricic's father found a letter from NDS in his son's belongings indicated the company's willingness to consult the computer underground for security expertise.
Floricic is now dead, and Kommerling has told MSNBC.com he has felt "pressure," since filing his assertions with the court.
www.legal-rights.org /NDSLAWSUIT/wherepiracy.html   (3156 words)

  
 Who knows the truth? (article) - Antionline Forums - Maximum Security for a Connected World
Known as “Tron” in the computer underground, Floricic was the author of a well-regarded research paper about reverse engineering smart card technology.
A few weeks later, in October of 1998, Floricic was found dead, hanging from a tree in a Berlin park.
Large companies are constantly at eat other's throats and I guess if they can get information on the others or put out information on the others, they can help their own business out.
www.antionline.com /showthread.php?s=&threadid=228384   (1019 words)

  
 Boris Floricic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Boris Floricic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 01:49, 2 Mar 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Boris Floricic contains research on
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Boris_Floricic   (90 words)

  
 Nieuwsselectie: Media
Tron, het internetpseudoniem van de 26-jarige Boris Floricic, wordt eind oktober 1998 dood aangetroffen in een park in Berlijn.
De journalist komt er achter dat Boris Floricic weliswaar extreem begaafd was op het gebied van microcomputers en smart cards, maar wat betreft sociale vaardigheden, net als Jesse Dailey en Eric Twilegar uit Geeks, een klein kind was.
Hij heeft tot het einde van zijn leven in zijn kinderkamer bij zijn moeder gewoond.
www.nrc.nl /W2/Nieuws/2000/05/19/Med/07.html   (1748 words)

  
 NRC Handelsblad - Computerbeveiliging - Hackers
Net als Karl Koch negen jaar geleden verdween Boris Floricic, in de hackerswereld beter bekend onder zijn pseudoniem Tro n, en werd hij een paar dagen later dood gevonden.
Ook Boris Floricic is wel eens betrapt door de politie op het uitproberen van een telefoonkaartsimulator.
Vanwege zijn kennis van versleutelingstechnieken, zijn afstudeerscriptie over de versleuteling van ISDN was van hoge kwaliteit, waren ook geheime diensten in Boris Floricic geïnteresseerd.
www.nrc.nl /W2/Lab/Beveiliging/hackers31121998.html   (2323 words)

  
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 Where piracy and profits converge - - MSNBC.com
But the fact that Floricic’s father found a letter from NDS in his son’s belongings indicated the company’s willingness to consult the computer underground for security expertise.
Tarnovsky, like Floricic, was an expert in smart card technology who lived in Germany.
Floricic is now dead, and Kommerling has told MSNBC.com he has felt “pressure,” since filing his assertions with the court.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3078551   (2855 words)

  
 German Wikipedia site goes offline after lawsuit
Currently, visitors to wikipedia.de are greeted with a notice that the site has been taken offline as the result of a provisional court order.
Tron, (Boris Floricic) died in 1998 under mysterious circumstances.
He had spent much of his teen years working on hacking and at one point, produced working clones of German phone cards.
www.singerdesign.com /2006/01/german-wikipedia-site-goes-offline.html   (238 words)

  
 Barbelith Underground > Switchboard > Wikipedia controversy
A German court has temporarily disabled the domain wikipedia.de because the parents of a famous dead 1990s hacker do not want their son's name to be displayed.
"Tron (8 June 1972 — October 1998) was the nickname of Boris Floricic, a German hacker and phreaker who used that pseudonym out of respect for the character in the 1982 Disney film Tron.
He became famous due to the unclear circumstances of his death.
www.barbelith.com /topic/23541   (313 words)

  
 Tron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tron (computing) - the operating system kernel and BASIC command
Boris Floricic - the German hacker whose nickname is "Tron"
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Tron   (109 words)

  
 SEO BLOG: Boris Floricic shuts down german wikipedia even after his death,
SEO BLOG: Boris Floricic shuts down german wikipedia even after his death,
Boris Floricic shuts down german wikipedia even after his death,
Boris Floricic was a german hacker and phreaker, He died a mysterious death in the year 1998, Many reported his death was a suicide, some members of his family reported he was murdered by an intelligent agency,
www.searchenginegenie.com /seo-blog/2006/01/boris-floricic-shuts-down-german.html   (330 words)

  
 High-stakes hacking, Euro-style | Tech News on ZDNet
He was the first to take apart telephone cards and remodel the computer chips inside to make the cards self-charging -- meaning free phone calls, forever.
In November of 1998, Tron -- Boris Floricic -- was found dead in a Berlin park.
No clear evidence was ever made public that supported the suggestion of foul play in Floricic's case.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595-503030.html   (818 words)

  
 News items
NDS tried for two years to recruit its most famous member, Boris Floricic, a brilliant German hacker known as Tron.
In October 1998, Floricic's body was found hanging from a tree in a Berlin park, with both feet on the ground.
Floricic had published a paper about hacking, or reverse-engineering, smartcards with Marcus Kuhn, a student at the University of Erlangen in Germany (now at Cambridge), who ran a user group called TV-Crypt.
www.auspaytv.com /news/april02/1501.htm   (2165 words)

  
 Dvorak Uncensored » 2006 » January
A Berlin court ordered the site pulled on Tuesday, after the family of the German hacker known as “Tron,” whose real name is Boris F., sued the Wikimedia Foundation to prevent them from publishing the real name of their son, who was found hanged in a park in 1998.
By the way, the hacker’s full name is Boris Floricic.
A technology that promises to replace the cables behind TV sets and entertainment centers with wireless connections appears to be headed for a format war, after two industry organizations formally broke off their collaboration.
www.dvorak.org /blog/?m=20060121   (1456 words)

  
 Wired News: Berlin Prepares for Chaos
Last year, over 1,500 converged on a humble school building in Hamburg for three days of hacking, workshops, and lectures on topics ranging from lockpicking to social engineering to the history of German Net culture.
Late in October, however, one of the CCC's most accomplished hackers, Boris Floricic, who had taken the name Tron, was found dead, hanging from a belt strung from a tree in a Berlin park.
The mysterious and as yet unsolved case is eerily reminiscent of the death of another CCC associate, Karl Koch, nearly 10 years ago.
wired-vig.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,17019,00.html   (489 words)

  
 Xbox-Scene Online Web Community > Piracy And Crack
Anyways NDC (NDS) had offered Boris a job.
Boris went missing...2 days after he went missing he was found..hung it the middle of a park.
Kinda wierd that it took 2 days for him to be found in the middle of a park in Berlin.
forums.xbox-scene.com /lofiversion/index.php/t50417.html   (1245 words)

  
 An outsider looks in on ICANN | Tech News on ZDNet
For all its public exploits during its 15 years, the club also has a dark side.
In 1998, Boris Floricic, 26, was found hanging by his own belt from a birch tree in a Berlin Park.
The master hacker helped the club prove that, despite telephone company claims, a hacker could use mobile phones at the expense of another subscriber.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-524679.html   (865 words)

  
 High Tech "NewsBits" for 01/01/99
The conference assembles computer enthusiasts from around the world for three days of hacking, discussions, and workshops on topics ranging from alternative operating systems to TCP/IP penetration to the state of the hacker ethic.
This year, the mysterious disappearance of German hacker Boris Floricic -- also known as Tron -- on 17 October and the discovery of his body in a Berlin park five days later has been Topic A. CCC spokesman Andy Mueller-Maguhn presented a timeline of events surrounding Floricic's death.
A heated discussion centered on two points that continue to rile CCC members.
www.newsbits.net /1999/19990101.htm   (2350 words)

  
 [ISN] High-stakes hacking, Euro-style
He was the first to take apart telephone cards and remodel the computer chips inside to make the cards self-charging meaning free phone calls, forever.
In November of 1998, Tron Boris Floricic was found dead in a Berlin park.
But even the possibility of the assassination of a computer hacker something U.S. hackers havent had to face keeps the European computer underground a bit more sober.
lists.virus.org /isn-0010/msg00113.html   (1660 words)

  
 German Wikipedia site goes offline after lawsuit
The official verdict was suicide, but his family and some of his associates harbor suspicions that he was the victim of foul play.
For whatever reasons, the Floricic family has not wanted his name revealed.
When the existence of the article—which appeared on wikipedia.de on May 31, 2005—became known to the family, they responded with a lawsuit.
arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20060119-6013.html   (724 words)

  
 dBforums - OT: German Hacker Tron's Death: Did Murdoch Do it?
Tarnovsky, like Floricic, was an expert in smart card technology who
Floricic is now dead, and Kommerling has told MSNBC.com
Floricic is now dead, and Kommerling has told
www.dbforums.com /t394307.html   (5457 words)

  
 Tron - Tod eines Hackers
I think that both his presentation of the case and the conclusions he maked are the most sensible ones that I have seen so far, therefore I'd like to refer you to him as a more well-informed source.
S: 138: www.burks.de/tron/3_3.htm - Boris F.: "Asymmetrischer RSA Algorithmus"
204: www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1365/1.html Boris Gröndahl: "Hacker, bleib bei Deinem Keybord!" In der Online-Zeitschrift Telepolis vom 7.7.1997
www.burks.de /tronbuch.html   (1793 words)

  
 Germans Ban Wikipedia Site
This is of course an intolerable attack on free speech which I am sure all libertarians will do their best to defeat.
To do my bit towards spreading the forbidden information, I will repeat the core of it here in my rough German: Hacker Tron heisst im Tatsache Boris Floricic.
And my comment to the German court concerned: "Heil Hitler"!
www.bloggernews.net /2006/01/germans-ban-wikipedia-site.html   (244 words)

  
 LP: 1000s of computer systems serving U.S. military, NASA, prominent research labs have been penetrated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
If this is true, then I would imagine that he is dead.
Boris Floricic committed suicide when he hacked some satellites.
The crazy thing is that the US might not off the individual, you have an number of INTEL agencies that would pull his nails, then crime syndicates, and then of course some pissed US folk.
www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=94741&Disp=0   (1945 words)

  
 BERLIN BLAWG - SEWOMA® » Blog Archive » Das postmortale Persönlichkeitsrecht: Streit um Tron alias Boris ...
Das postmortale Persönlichkeitsrecht: Streit um Tron alias Boris F. Januar 2006, 10:30:23 Uhr von Rechtsanwalt Dennis Sevriens
Über den Hacker Tron, mit bürgerlichen Namen Boris Floricic, ist in der Presse, sogar international, z.B. im The Observer viel, teilweise auf hohem journalistischem Niveau berichtet worden.
Personen der Zeitgeschichte, dazu kann das Computergenie Floricic m.E. gezählt werden, die unter Beachtung des Pressekodexes nach ihrem Tod in den Medien, insbesondere in Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerken oder ähnlichen lexikalischen Werken erwähnt werden, sind nicht in ihrem Ansehen beeinträchtigt.
www.sewoma.de /berlinblawg/2006/01/11/sevriens/das-postmortale-persoenlichkeitsrecht   (2532 words)

  
 andi808: blogging in a sandbox :: Blogsome has new servers :: January :: 2006
Sorry for the lack of posts in the last few days, due to a) laziness and b) blogsome moving all the blogs to new servers and restricting admin access there wasn’t any new content added.
Access to wikipedia.de (which points to de.wikipedia.org) has been disabled, because Boris Floricic is called by his full name, instead of Boris F.
Now I fear my office in St. Petersburg will receive mail from his parents lawyers…
andi808.blogsome.com /2006/01/19/blogsome-has-new-servers   (168 words)

  
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www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net /events/2005-06_Venedig_Biennale   (341 words)

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