RIP, Wau Holland, founder of the legendary hacker clan, the Chaos Computer Club.

Even the first famous CCC hack never would have happened had the German postal and telecommunications authority heeded Holland’s and Wernery’s warning that they had found a security hole in the Btx network. To make their point, the pair hacked into the system using the password of the Hamburg savings bank and ran up the equivalent of roughly US$50,000 in credit to the CCC account. Then they went to the media with the story, which caused a major stir in West Germany.

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