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DVD Jon moves to San Diego

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On October 19, 2005, 7:20 PM EST

Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for Michael Robertson, to do reverse engineering and other interesting stuff. Johansen, who was a world famous reverse engineer by the time he was 16, outraged the motion picture industry in 1999 for his work on DeCSS, a successful project to crack the encryption on DVDs.

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