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I don't think there's any new distinction to be made about hackers regarding this. Rather, hasn't it always been a question of whether someone was a target of interest or not?

I wouldn't be surprised if the US and Soviets were killing hackers 25+ years ago during the cold war.

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There are some conspiracy theories floating around the deaths of Boris Floricic [1] and Karl Koch [2]. Especially the latter one is often connected to the KGB due to his involvement as a hacker during the cold war.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_%28hacker%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_%28hacker%29

Wasn't familiar with them. The notion that Koch burned himself to death with gasoline as a means of suicide is absurd.

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