Worth noting. So many obituaries these days, sadly, but I'm glad I ran across this.
Internet security saviour Daniel Kaminsky dies at 42
Researcher was known for his discovery of a fundamental flaw in the fabric of the internet
By Nicole Perlroth
His childhood paralleled the 1983 movie War Games, in which a young child, played by Matthew Broderick, unwittingly accesses a US military supercomputer. When Kaminsky was 11, his mother said, she received an angry phone call from someone who identified himself as a network administrator for the Western United States. The administrator said someone at her residence was “monkeying around in territories where he shouldn’t be monkeying around”.
Without her knowledge, Kaminsky had been examining military websites. The administrator vowed to “punish” him by cutting off the family’s internet access. Maurer warned the administrator that if he made good on his threat, she would take out an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle denouncing the Pentagon’s security. “I will take out an ad that says, ‘Your security is so crappy, even an 11-year-old can break it.’” ...
“The internet was never designed to be secure,” Kaminsky recalled in a 2016 interview. “The internet was designed to move pictures of cats. We are very good at moving pictures of cats.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...or-dies-at-42/
Dan Kaminsky, S.F. native and pioneer of internet security, dies at 42
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/da...42/ar-BB1geuW6
In Appreciation: Dan Kaminsky
Beloved security industry leader and researcher passes away unexpectedly at the age of 42.
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerab...d/d-id/1340830
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