I just had a look at +orc wikipedia page, and it says his identity isn’t known. Yet i’m pretty sure i’ve read a post on HN or a comment, a long time ago, implying otherwise... anyone knows more ?
As far as I'm aware, no one is still looking as Fravia is dead and +Orc hasn't posted publicly in decades.
I always thought they were the same person. Fravia was operating at a time when reverse engineering was very dangerous legally. Creating an anonymous persona to publish these tutorials makes perfect sense. I'm sure he knew how to mask his writings to look like someone from a vague location in Europe. Read and wrote latin, accomplished linguist, +Orc quoted many Latin phrases and obscure references to old texts, estimated ages of +Orc lines up with Fravia etc.
Only people that ever conclusively stated that +Orc was not Fravia was Fravia himself and others in the HCU.
Probably the same guy. So much has been lost to time that I doubt anyone will ever known one way or the other. Friends probably do, but they would have no reason to give up that secret and probably helped spread disinformation.
At the time I came across +fravia I believed that +Orc was a real person, but like you nowadays I'm more inclined to believe they were one and the same.
Regardless I remember finding the reversing pages in the early 90s and learning a lot. I was disappointed by the pivot to the search-based site, but regardless Fravia himself was a huge influence on me, and I was saddened to learn of his passing.
Chrome will display a warning about the page being unsafe. woodmann.com had a bunch of reversing stuff on their forums. Use wget or something if concerned.
