He's also apparently quite good at Call of Duty[1].
[1] http://www.kitguru.net/software/gaming/jon-martindale/kim-do...
Are you talking about AirBnb and their Craigslist scamming?
> He's only interested in money.
Meanwhile venture backed start-ups are doing God's work, right?!
How does another company in tech spamming, have anything to do with whether it's morally right or wrong with another company using such tactics?
Two wrong don't make a right..
What? I don't even know if Kimble and AirBnB are connected...
>Meanwhile venture backed start-ups are doing God's work, right?!
If you do a Ctrl+F "venture" I'm sure you wont find any occurences in my post.
I should have used the /sarcasm tag so zwdr didn't take me so literally.
> 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.
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.
The scummy shit he did is negligible.
And I don't think they're negligible– at least not from an ethical point of view.
Go and read about Albert Fish. Might moderate your claims about this guy a bit...
He's a good marketer, but one of the worst people I've read about. There's a file of his quotes (from the CCC mailing list) circulating, if you know german you should try reading that. Really gives some insight into him. For example how that l33t hacker cred he has is all for show– I wouldn't buy anything about free speech from him either. He's only interested in money. I remember one quote from one of his teachers about how Kimble was the most antisocial kid he ever teached LOL.
TLDR: You really shouldnt like the guy, read a bit about him and you'll figure out why.
EDIT: Here's the quote file: http://babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt