The year is 1998. A young man going out to enjoy the nice weather out, doesn’t come back home.
He is soon reported as missing.
Three days into his disappearance, police confiscate his computer equipment, disks, CDs, etc.
Police: “The missing-person investigation is not compromised by the criminal case, since they are being handled separately.”
Police have filed charges against him for “computer fraud”.
You see, this young man is not like many other people. He’s smart…on a genius level. He has a hobby some call “hacking” others call “cracking”. And he’s pretty good at it too. He created things like a telephone card that charges itsself when low in credit….He published a paper about hacking and reverse-engineering smartcards.
He also manages to somehow crack pay TV encryption algorithms. Large media conglomerates and corporations invest millions to develop encryption systems like these and the potential market worth of them go in the billions.
Amongs the young mans papers, his father finds an invoice. It reads “Hello, here are the analog devices, good luck”.
It’s from one of those corporations. They would be very upset indeed if the young man managed to crack their device….$US3 billion worth of damage in lost revenue would be the result.
The young man had indeed manage to crack the device they gave him. But now that the device could be crack…the young man might tell his friends how to do it! That of course won’t happen because, you see,…5 days after his disappearance…the young man is found…in a park…2 miles away from his home…hanging from a tree.
R.I.P B.F.
Agnetha 
Tourism North West Australia 
ProudCanadianKafira 
Tanin 
Ness 
Andrew 
Ramona 
Nees 
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The moral to the story is…don’t get smart. =)
R.I.P B.F.
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edit*
R.I.P B.F. ?
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B.F. were his initials.
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What country was this?
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