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The domain wikipedia.de, which redirects to the German-language version of Wikipedia was ordered to go off-line by a German court, per the request of a family of the late hacker known as Tron. They did not wish to make his real name known to the public.

From Breitbart.com:

Visitors to the site http://www.wikipedia.de were greeted by a statement from Wikipedia Deutschland e.V. informing them they were required by law to remove the site and promising the group’s lawyers were taking “every possible step to again bring you uncomplicated access to a the free encyclopedia Wikipedia.”


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A Berlin court ordered the site pulled on Tuesday, after the family of the German hacker known as “Tron,” whose real name is Boris F., sued the Wikimedia Foundation to prevent them from publishing the real name of their son, who was found hanged in a park in 1998.

But a quick check with the English version of Wikipedia would reveal Tron’s surname.

This is definitely not the best way to hide information from the Internet. Take down a popular website and you’re sure to have a multitude of bloggers and DIGGers talking about it for the next couple of weeks or so.

I think the best course of action would have been for the family’s representatives/lawyers to request the Wikipedia editors to take out Tron’s real name and then lock the article from further editions.

Do check out the Wikipedia entry for Tron for more information on the story.

(via DIGG)

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