> 19 - 21 December 1996
He's horrible!
In all seriousness, I've had a quick read through (with the finest of Google's translations) and I'm not sure what you're drawing exception to. There's stuff that just sounds like satire and other BS, but I can't figure out why you wrote what you wrote.
EDIT: For a bit of background: He and the CCC were never really friendly with each other. He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud.
For example, he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money (that he didn't have back then). There are a few other stunts, but generally he behaved like a 14 year old asshole with a big ego and too much time on his hand. Didn't help that he tried to bullshit everyone about how much money he made (DATAPROTECT LOL).
Maybe that didn't get through the translation.
The scummy shit he did is negligible.
And I don't think they're negligible– at least not from an ethical point of view.
Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...
> he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money
Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!
Please do a Ctrl+f again, I'm sure you wont find anything about HN or Start-Ups in my post.
>Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!
Dunno, guess some startups are shady, guess some don't. Can we please talk about Kimble now? You're derailing the topic here.