[HN Gopher] Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man b... ___________________________________________________________________ Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam- email empire Author : goodcanadian Score : 23 points Date : 2020-10-31 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.cbc.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (www.cbc.ca) | daenz wrote: | What a colorful life: a jewish chess prodigy who becomes a | notorious neo-nazi and email spammer, ruffles a lot of feathers | as a con man, turns into a nomad and travels under the radar | around North America, finally shot to death and found in a | burning SUV. | | There seems to be a specific rare phenotype for these tech high- | risk takers (thinking of John McAfee also). | ojnabieoot wrote: | I think calling an email spammer a technologist, and a | technological risk-taker, is a bit much - as is the comparison | to McAfee. Maybe in temperament but nowhere close in ability or | accomplishment. Hawke was just a con artist with some computer | skills. | swivelmaster wrote: | You kind of have to wonder what went so terribly wrong in | childhood that led to this behavior. McAfee is clearly a | brilliant but very disturbed person. What a sad waste of that | talent and intellect. | eganist wrote: | Ethan Hawke would play him pretty well on screen. | RileyJames wrote: | Definitely, holds some similarities to Taking Lives: | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364045/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-10-31 23:00 UTC)