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The Strange Disappearance of Dancho Danchev

rudy_wayne writes "ZDNet is reporting that Zero Day blogger and malware researcher Dancho Danchev has gone missing since August of last year. Dancho, who was relentless in his pursuit of cyber-criminals, last blogged here on August 18. His personal blog has not been updated since September 11, 2010. 'At ZDNet, we made multiple attempts to contact him, to no avail. Telephone numbers are going to Bulgarian language voicemails and our attempts to reach him via a snail mail address also came up empty. Just recently, a trusted member of the malware research community reached out to us to say he had received a troubling letter from Dancho on September 9, 2010, about the threat of persecution in Bulgaria.'"

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  1. The Bank Always Wins by MarkvW · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The banks just push their credit card losses onto their customers. Too bad the tea-partying retards don't take it in their heads to do something about that!

    The big issue that I see is that there is not enough pressure on banks to keep their credit card transactions secure (or not make them)!

    The malware plague would dry up pretty fast if credit card fraud wasn't so easy to do.

  2. Clearly this is Obama's fault. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Muslim socialists hate computer hackers.

  3. Re:Tin foil hats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I tend to mod funny stuff informative or insightful because modding someone funny doesn't affect karma the same way. I like to reward folks for being funny.

  4. Re:Tin foil hats by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    messages with comedic substance tend to come across as wholly incorrect assertions when read from sources being represented as useful information.

    Wow, you said that like it meant something.

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