On Sat, 7 Jun 1997 00:44:15 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
Mike Duvos wrote:
An interesting twist on rubber hose decryption in the case of the murder of Jonathan Levin, son of the top executive of media giant Time Warner.
Police believe his ATM card was stolen, and he was then jabbed with a steak knife until he revealed the PIN.
This brings up a question. Did these robbers kill him right after they found out the answer, or they first tried to withdraw money to check if his number was right?
Yes, this is apparently how it happened. The robber tortured him for the PIN, used the card to get $800 from a machine and then returned to stab and shoot him. Apparently the murderer is one of his students (he was a teacher in NY I believe). This happened after Levin asked the class to write their biographies and revealed who his father was.
This brings up a question on the strategy in this game.
I don't think there is any strategy in being robbed, only survuval. Levin commited a grave mistake. Revealing his background to his class was a very stupid move. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian C. Lane http://www.eskimo.com/~nexus KC7TYU ------------------ 96B9 C123 5C90 BECC 6A1F 7DC6 4F2B A26E --------------------