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Famous Russian hacker Kris Kaspersky passed away

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Post by afiskon » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 12:58 PM UTC

Famous Russian hacker Kris Kaspersky passed away
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Post by afiskon » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 12:59 PM UTC

More links (in Russian): http://rsdn.org/forum/life/6717583 + https://xakep.ru/2017/03/07/kris-kasperski-rip/

Wiki page about Kris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kaspersky

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Post by saycheese » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 1:04 PM UTC

This is not Kaspersky Lab's Antivirus creator Eugene Kaspersky.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 3:44 PM UTC

saycheese wrote: post #3

This is not Kaspersky Lab's Antivirus creator Eugene Kaspersky.

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Post by lfx » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:18 PM UTC

RIP.

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Post by agumonkey » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:54 PM UTC

skydive incident... and John Peterson (PL) https://twitter.com/PhilipWadler/status/839134370854227970 climbing incident ...

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Post by tallanvor » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 5:53 PM UTC

The title says he was famous, but what was he known for?

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Post by zzrg » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 6:03 PM UTC

saycheese wrote: post #3

This is not Kaspersky Lab's Antivirus creator Eugene Kaspersky.

Thanks. Probably most people will assume that's who it was, as I don't know any other famous Kasperskys.

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Post by clueless123 » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 6:10 PM UTC

From the article: "He was flying above his skill level"

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Post by crowbahr » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 6:13 PM UTC

zzrg wrote: post #8

saycheese wrote: post #3

This is not Kaspersky Lab's Antivirus creator Eugene Kaspersky.

Thanks. Probably most people will assume that's who it was, as I don't know any other famous Kasperskys.

Evidently there were at least 2.

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