Day: January 21, 2006
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tron
“Boris F. was a german hacker under the pseudonym TRON, doing a lot of advanced chipcard hacking and crypto gear development. TRON died in 1998, he probably committed suicide, but there is a slight chance he was murdered. ↑[…]“—Now German courts act against de.wikipedia because TRON’s offline family-name was published in full there. Someone who…
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tron 2.0
For some early cyberculture items the franchise- and adaptation-roundabout seems to spin forever. The 1982 silverscreen-movie ↑Tron was followed by Bally Midway’s ↑identically named arcade game in the same year. 1983 saw the computergame ↑Discs of Tron, and, more recently, in 2004, ↑Tron 2.0 and its ports/spinoffs ↑Tron 2.0 Killer App. A comic book…