Apparently, it started here, then spread like wildfire through the security mailing lists and twitterverse. str0ke, of Milw0rm, was no longer among the living.I had my doubts. One entry on a blogspot blog doesn't usually constitute breaking news, and there was no more authoritative source. Some people who saw my skepticism told me that it'd be pretty screwed up to fake a death of someone like str0ke. All I can say? Madoff. Lori Drew. Fake Facebook deaths. Bonnie Sweeten. There ...
Apparently, it started here, then spread like wildfire through the security mailing lists and twitterverse. str0ke, of Milw0rm, was no longer among the living.
I had my doubts. One entry on a blogspot blog doesn't usually constitute breaking news, and there was no more authoritative source. Some people who saw my skepticism told me that it'd be pretty screwed up to fake a death of someone like str0ke. All I can say? Madoff. Lori Drew. Fake Facebook deaths. Bonnie Sweeten. There are some f'd up people in the world, and a lot of them do f'd up things over the Internet.
Str0ke is still alive and well. Or is he?
Related:
Rehi, Milw0rm
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