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DVD Jon to work for Michael Robertson
GuNgA-DiN writes "Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met Sundance. "I have no idea what I'll be doing, but I know it will be reverse engineering, and I'm sure it will be interesting," Johansen told Wired News during a Friday stopover in San Francisco. Robertson's website reveals that they are working on a new project and all he said was: "Oboe is the code name for a significant new project we have underway that will launch before the end of the year. It's as momentous as anything I've ever done in my technical career, but I won't say more since I despise vaporware. I know this project will be even better with Jon on board.""
Perhaps he got "persuaded"? As in "Your wife is having a lovely vacation at our resort in Guatanamo bay. We believe you'd want to join her here as there are so many steep cliffs around here and, well, accidents happen..."
Who do you think wrote DeCSS?
Post-rock/Ambient/Drone and other noise.
Ginger.
In other news, DVD Jon is cuffed as he enters LAX.