Hey people, some of you may have read this, but hopefully some haven't and will find it very interesting. It just makes me wonder what is really going on. What the public is told and what really happened might be a different story. Could a company murder someone just to get ahead of their competition? Nobody knows...

Anyways, the article can be found here:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/745312.asp

If you are lazy (like me) and don't think it'll interest you, here are some snippets:

But now, the plastic cards are at the center of a global conspiracy theory — a cutthroat corporate battle, some say, to control the world’s living rooms through deception, cheating, and intimidation.
THE STORY COMES COMPLETE with alleged corporate-sponsored hacking, a $1 billion lawsuit, mysterious cash payoffs shipped in hollowed-out VCRs, and even a suspicious death.
The following year, in 1998, NDS went looking for more smart card expertise and contacted brilliant German hacker Boris Floricic. Known as “Tron” in the computer underground, Floricic was the author of a well-regarded research paper about reverse engineering smart card technology.
A few weeks later, in October of 1998, Floricic was found dead, hanging from a tree in a Berlin park. The death was ruled a suicide by authorities — a ruling many hackers reject.
A “fresh hack” could be worth up to $5 million, according to one estimate...
Rumors about the thriving pirate smart card trade abound. The most popular involves the discovery later that year of a VCR stuffed with $50,000 cash that was stopped at the Canadian border by U.S. Customs officials.
It's all very interesting to me. I would love to know what really goes on, but how can we trust anything we hear?

Greg