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       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)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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/
        
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