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Dan Kaminsky has died
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#32I will miss him terribly. He was the guy who let me crash in his room at Defcon when I was a minor and was too young to book my own room. This kicked off 20 years of friendship. He was brilliant, zany, ADD x 1000, and always endearing and loving.
In 2008 I was lucky to collaborate on DNS issues with Dan when he discovered a new form of DNS cache poisoning and spent years helping the Internet upgrade and defend against a serious and significant vulnerability. We all owe him a debt of gratitude for this and so much of his other work.
He was a hacker's hacker, and the guy you want in your corner. Very sad to hear this news.
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#34I had dinner with Dan once, he ”social engineered” me and claimed he forgot to bring money. I knew what he was doing, but also knew that if picking up the tab was the price i had to pay for getting to hang out with him, I got the better end of the Deal. Rest In Peace
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#35Does anyone know what happened?
The tweet specifically asks us not to speculate and the parent article makes mention that the conditions of his death have not been made public.
I’m not sure how others feel, personally I am conflicted: respect the death of an icon and not pry (even if others are speaking on his behalf) or satisfy my curiosity.
I’m going to go with the former, for now.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
you didn't even follow the ask of the tweet you quoted. TF?
No, I don't think it's a reasonable request. The best way to forestall speculation is to just say what happened. Presumably his family already knows so it's not going to shock them.
>Presumably his family already knows so it's not going to shock them.
Or only some of his family know, and it may be best that for those that haven't heard yet the best people to tell them would be the other family members that do know.
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#37I will miss him terribly. He was the guy who let me crash in his room at Defcon when I was a minor and was too young to book my own room. This kicked off 20 years of friendship. He was brilliant, zany, ADD x 1000, and always endearing and loving. In 2008 I was lucky to collaborate on DNS issues with Dan when he discovered a new form of DNS cache poisoning and spent years helping the Internet upgrade and defend agains…
I saw him speak at BlackHat in 2008 when he presented that work -- _everyone_ was there. It was an amazing presentation, and I was properly filled with respect for Dan.
So very sad that he's gone so young.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
you didn't even follow the ask of the tweet you quoted. TF?
No, I don't think it's a reasonable request. The best way to forestall speculation is to just say what happened. Presumably his family already knows so it's not going to shock them.
or you could respect the families wishes, instead of prioritizing your curiosity.
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#39I will miss him terribly. He was the guy who let me crash in his room at Defcon when I was a minor and was too young to book my own room. This kicked off 20 years of friendship. He was brilliant, zany, ADD x 1000, and always endearing and loving. In 2008 I was lucky to collaborate on DNS issues with Dan when he discovered a new form of DNS cache poisoning and spent years helping the Internet upgrade and defend agains…
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#40Dan was at Santa Clara in the spring of 1998 when I was there on an exchange. Unbeknownst to me, I was watching South Park in the dorm’s TV lounge next to a future internet legend. We later made the connection through mutual friends and he became a technical advisor to my startup.
Dan was always generous with his time and expertise. He was the kind of person whom you could expect could easily become very rich, but was entirely unmotivated by money. Dan was fascinated to learn the inner workings of things we all take for granted - such as the DNS. A true hacker.