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[FYI] Berlin Prepares for Chaos
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:59:23 +0100
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Berlin Prepares for Chaos
by David Hudson
3:00 a.m. 24.Dec.98.PST
BERLIN -- When Germany's legendary Chaos
Computer Club convenes here on Sunday for its
15th Congress, the atmosphere may be more
emotionally charged than it has been in years.
The CCC's annual meeting between Christmas
and the new year has been a holiday tradition
since the early 1980s, when hackers and hobbyists
would show up to trade tips and passwords. 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.
He was 26.
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