Our coverage: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49880,00.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:24:34 -0800 From: carey <careyat_private> To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Subject: Kimble's at it again. Hello Declan, I ran into this tiny tidbit about Kim Schmitz off of another mailing list I'm on, and remembered that you had reported on him a few months back (http://www.politechbot.com/p-02701.html). I always found it funny that he was looking to drop off $10 million for anyone who could successfully hack Bin Laden, and when I ran into this tidbit (http://technology.scmp.com/techinternet/ZZZJAQ60SWC.html) I laughed a bit harder. Turns out Schmitz has been detained in his native homeland of Germany after being expelled from Thailand. The German Government wants him on some hefty insider trading accusations (he supposedly netted $1.1 million EU from the British Company letsbuyit.com) While the news isn't all that exciting, it's always nice to hear about egomaniacals like this one getting harassed by the authorities, and if that isn't enough, there is always the response from his website. To quote: "The Real Kim Schmitz is no more He is now known as His Royal Highness King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire" Here's the article, reported from South China Morning Post Online: Net closes on former super-hacker AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Munich Internet millionaire Kim Schmitz, pictured in Hong Kong, has been detained by German authorities in Munich after being deported from Thailand. Reuters photo Internet super-hacker turned online entrepreneur Kim Schmitz was detained on his arrival in his German homeland on Tuesday following deportation from Thailand. German police, who were waiting for the eccentric young millionaire at Munich airport, took him into custody, the prosecutor's office said. He is wanted in Germany for insider share-dealing, among other matters. Schmitz was arrested on Friday at the five-star hotel where he was staying in Bangkok. Thai police said he would be expelled and barred from returning to Thailand after he announced on his Web site www.kimble.org that he would commit suicide on his birthday, which was Monday, and invited surfers to witness his death. The site now says that "the real Kim Schmitz is no more" and that he wants to be known as "His Royal Highness King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire". Schmitz had been evidently expecting the worst: a link on the page invites visitors to "click here to send a letter to Kim in prison". German investigators believe he made profits of 1.1 million euros (about HK$7.57 million) through illicit insider-dealing in shares of the troubled British online enterprise, Letsbuyit.com. Schmitz, who has been convicted of hacking offences, made a name for himself by claiming to have broken into the computers of the Pentagon and Nasa before turning to business. Recently, he claimed to have hacked a Somali bank and copied the accounts of Osama bin Laden. He again made headlines last year by offering a US$10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of bin Laden. -- Best regards, carey mailto:careyat_private ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Events: Congreso Nacional de Periodismo Digital in Huesca, Spain from Jan. 17-18 (http://www.congresoperiodismo.com) and the Second International Conference on Web-Management in Diplomacy in Malta from Feb. 1-3. (http://www.diplomacy.edu/Web/conference2/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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