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Boris Floricic - Tron (RIP)

In November of 1998, Tron -- Boris Floricic -- was found dead in a Berlin park. Police
ruled it a suicide, but family, friends, and the CCC say foul play was involved.

"Perhaps Tron refused to share his secrets with the Russian mafia," speculated
one member of the computer underground who asked not to be identified. Or perhaps he just
broke into the wrong computer.

http://tronland.org/

Boris Floricic (better known by the pseudonym Tron; born 8 June 1972; died sometime
between 17-22 October 1998) was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear
circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for presenting in
his diploma thesis one of the first public..at the time he was murdered by
Mossad&Murdoch he was only 26 years old.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/12/17050

Tempers flared at Sunday's Chaos Communication Congress session, and the death of a famous
Chaos Computer Club member was the flashpoint.

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.

First was a refusal by the Berlin police to waive the 48-hour waiting period before
referring the case to the Bureau of Missing Persons. Second was the decision by the police
to file charges against Tron.

By 20 October, the 26-year-old hacker was not only officially missing, but also under
suspicion of committing computer fraud. Tron's computer, laptop, and all his equipment and
files were confiscated.

Two police officers unofficially addressed the issues Sunday. They said that the
missing-person investigation was not compromised by the criminal case, since they were
being handled separately.

Responding to emotional outbursts from Tron's friends calling suicide out of the question,
officer Klaus Ruckschnat reminded the crowd that the official line was still
"apparent suicide." That is, the police have not yet ruled out the possibility
that Tron was murdered.

Padeluun, a longstanding member of the CCC, gently suggested that "sometimes things
are what they seem." In other words, just as the police weren't ruling out murder,
the CCC should not rule out suicide.

Mueller-Maguhn outlined the areas of Tron's work that may have got him in trouble with any
number of parties. The young hacker cracked phone cards and digital set-top boxes for pay
TV, and his university dissertation was on ISDN-related cryptography.

"Tron may have underestimated the financial value of the information he
uncovered," said Mueller-Maguhn. "He was always direct and honest, but also
naive."

The CCC settled on no unified position regarding Tron's fate, but some audience members
agreed that if a lesson is to be learned from his death, it is to publish valuable
information widely as soon as it's discovered. Or risk life and limb.

Earlier, CCC co-founder Wau Holland shared his personal observations on a decade and a
half of CCC history and controversy. Among its "accomplishments," the CCC had
cracked the German postal network, planted a Trojan horse in NASA's computer system, and
seen the death of one of its own before.

"In every case," said Holland, "the club has retained its independence. We
don't take sides."

Other conference events this week include a lockpicking contest, a robot-building contest,
and a report on "Hacking the KGB: 10 Years After."

http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/04/wikipedia_tron

Dass der Chaos Computer Club selbst jahrelang die Diplomarbeit des Verstorbenen im Netz
zum Download anbot, auf deren Deckblatt der volle Name stand, gehört zu den
zahlreichen Anekdoten, die sich rund um den Fall ranken. Mittlerweile äußerten
sich auch andere prominente CCC-Vertreter wie Tim Pritlove zu dem Fall. In seinem Weblog
ging er auf Distanz zu Müller-Maguhns Position.

"Tron" war im Oktober 1998 in einem Berliner Park erhängt aufgefunden
worden. Nach Angaben der Ermittlungsbehörden hatte der Hacker Selbstmord begangen.
Die offizielle Todesursache wurde jedoch vielfach bezweifelt.

Der unter anderem auf Sprachverschlüsselung und das Entschlüsseln von
TV-Signalen spezialisierte "Tron" sei vielmehr Mordopfer des Geheimdienstes oder
der organisierten Kriminalität geworden - diese und andere Verschwörungstheorien
kursieren seitdem im Netz.

http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Tron_2.0



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(hacker)

Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron (June 8, 1972 – 17-22 October, 1998),
was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various
conspiracy theories. He is also known for his diploma thesis presenting one of the first
public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the
"Cryptophon".

Floricic's pseudonym was a reference to the central character in the 1982 Disney film
Tron. Floricic was interested in defeating computer security mechanisms; amongst other
hacks, he broke the security of the German phonecard and produced working clones. He was
subsequently sentenced to fifteen months in jail for the physical theft of a public phone
(for reverse engineering purposes) but the sentence was suspended on probation.

From December 2005 to January 2006, Tron again drew media attention when his parents and
Andy Müller-Maguhn brought legal action in Germany against the Wikimedia Foundation
and its German chapter Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. The first preliminary injunction tried
to stop Wikipedia from publishing Tron's full name, and a second one followed, temporarily
preventing the use of the German internet domain wikipedia.de as a redirect address to the
German Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(hacker)


Tron 2.0
Tron 2.0 is a computer game developed by Monolith Productions. It is a sequel to the 1982
motion picture Tron. The PC version of the game was released by Buena Vista Games on
August 26, 2003. The Mac version was released by MacPlay on April 21, 2004. The game is a
first person shooter set "inside..

During his studies, Tron attended an internship with a company developing electronic
security systems. In the winter term 1997/1998 Tron successfully finished his studies and
published his diploma thesis, in which he developed and described the
"Cryptophon", an ISDN telephone with built-in voice encryption. Since parts of
this work, which were to be provided by another student, were missing, he could not finish
his work on the Cryptophon. His thesis, however, was rated as exceptional by the
evaluating university professor. After graduation, Tron applied for work, but was
unsuccessful. In his spare time he continued, among other activities, his work on the
Cryptophon.

He alleged to have created working clones of a chipcard used for British Pay TV and would
continue his work to defeat the security of the Nagravision/Syster scrambling system which
was then used by the German Pay TV provider "PREMIERE", and presumably among
others.

Later, American scientists outlined a theoretical attack against SIM cards used for GSM
mobile phones. Together with hackers from the Chaos Computer Club, Tron successfully
created a working clone of such a SIM card, thus showing the practicability of the attack.
He also engaged in cloning the German phonecard and succeeded. While Tron only wanted to
demonstrate the insecurity of the system, the proven insecurity was also abused by
criminals which led to the attention of law enforcement agencies and the German national
phone operator Deutsche Telekom. After the Deutsche Telekom changed the system, Tron tried
to remove a complete public card phone from a booth by force (using a sledgehammer) on 3
March 1995 in order to, as he told, adapt his phonecard simulators to the latest changes.
He and a friend were, however, caught by the police upon this attempt. Tron was later
sentenced to a prison term of 15 months which was suspended on probation.

Tron went missing on 17 October 1998 and was found dead in a local park in the
Neukölln district of Berlin on 22 October [1] after being hanged from a waistbelt
wrapped around his neck. The cause of death was officially recorded as suicide. Some of
his peers in the Chaos Computer Club, as well as his family members and some outside
critics, have been vocal in their assertions that Tron may have been murdered.[2] It is
argued that his activities in the areas of Pay TV cracking and voice scrambling might have
disturbed the affairs of an intelligence agency or organized crime enough to provide a
motive.

The German journalist Burkhard Schröder published a book about the death titled
"Tron - Tod eines Hackers" ("Tron - Death of a Hacker") in 1999 in
which he presents the facts about the case known at the time. Because he concludes that
Tron committed suicide, the author is harshly criticized by both members of the Chaos
Computer Club and Tron's parents. A lot of rumors and conspiracy theories are circulating
about the death, and the case was also used as the basis for various works of fiction. The
US Media including ABC have also published factual articles concerning his death

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