This Digg story tracks the case of two security experts that exposed illegal phone tapping technologies hidden within cellular phone networks. One of them was found dead in Italy, the other, in Greece. The official line is that they both committed suicide, but the circumstances of their death are highly suspicious:
Just after noon on Friday, July 21, Adamo Bove — head of security at Telecom Italia, the country’s largest telecommunications firm — told his wife he had some errands to run as he left their Naples apartment. Hours later, police found his car parked atop a freeway overpass. Bove’s body lay on the pavement some 100 feet below.
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[Software engineer for Vodafone, in Greece] Costas Tsalikidis, according to friends and family, was excited about his work and was looking forward to marrying his longtime girlfriend. But on March 9, 2005, his elderly mother found him hanging from a white rope tied to pipes outside of his apartment bathroom. His limp feet dangled a mere three inches above the floor. His death was ruled a suicide; he, like Adamo Bove, left no suicide note.
For the whole story, see:
* Two Strange Deaths in European Wiretapping Scandal
* Adamo Bove :Two Strange Deaths in European Wiretapping Scandal
Are the spooks now running amok?
