RIP Dan. Dan was one of the great reasons to attend in person the Vegas security circus (B Sides, Black Hat and Defcon). My other favorite presenters ranged from Barnaby Jack (also deceased) to Moxie.
Dan Kaminsky has died
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#82H was a wonderful person who was always generous with his time. I’m so sad that he is gone. It isn’t hyperbolic to say that we as a tech community are better because of him.
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#83;( @dang can we get a black bar please?
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#84December 2019. I flew out to SF, and we hacked for ten days.
He saved our company from extinction. I won't discuss the sequel to that, because it doesn't reflect well on some people who don't deserve that in this eulogy. But I will say that we retained our friendship through it all.
I'm absolutely gutted at this news. What a shining human being. A terrible loss.
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#85Apart from the DNS cache poisoning attack, Dan did some vital followup work on the Sony CD rootkit discovered by Mark Russinovich. Sony's early defence was that it wouldn't affect the Internet. Dan showed using DNS caches that it had already affected over half a million networks on the Internet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080423212131/http://www.wired....
A smart man and a nice man. RIP.
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#86Does anyone have a copy of the sources for Paketto Keiretsu? It seems to have disappeared from his website(s) some years ago and I kept meaning to ask him for a copy. It was an early inspiration for a lot of my L3-in-userspace work.
Yeah, I have a copy.
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#87I 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
Given the sheer number of things I've seen Dan space out, I strongly suspect you're dead wrong about this one.
I don't know how many years ago this was, but he's been a man of independent means for longer ago than whenever this happened.
I think you intended this as a sharing of a cool moment you had with the recently deceased, but you thoroughly missed the mark.
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#88I 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
It is a funny moment. When I die, if people care, may they reminisce on all my quirks and roast me for moments like this. I won't care, I'll be dead.
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#89Him along with Aaron Schwartz, two great hackers cut down too early.
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#90"Of the seven Recovery Key Shareholders who possess the ability to restore the DNS root keys, Dan is the American representative." -https://dankaminsky.com/bio/