contributed by Philipp Koerber
TRON, a brilliant European hacker who created the first of the so called 'miracle cards' and small low-cost telephone scrambling devices, has been found dead in a park in Berlin, Germany. Officials are calling the death a suicide. Fellow members of the Chaos Computer Club are shocked and saddened about his untimely death but are wondering if in fact this was a suicide.

Chaos Computer Club

contributed by Space Rogue
Not content with splashing red paint or setting buildings on fire the Animal Liberation front is now using such tactics as Email bombings, Virus attacks, DoS, and web site hacking to get its message across.

MSNBC

contributed by daveg
What life behind bars like for a Hacker? Kim Nash interviews three convicted hackers to get their perspective. Minor Threat and Iceman are interviewed.

CNN

contributed by Space Rogue
AOL makes a big screw up after delivering thousands and thousands of CD-ROMS with the login password of POGROM-GULLED. The Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary says a pogrom is "an organized massacre, esp. of Jews", and the verb "gull" means "to deceive, trick, or cheat. AOL is investigating.

The Australian