Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?

str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM. We @ blacksecurity are deeply saddened by the loss of a good hearted friend.

At the risk (certainty?) of being downvoted, that's an interesting choice of words.

For those who don't know (I didn't), it appears milw0rm is a kind of exploits database:

http://www.milw0rm.com/

I had never heard of it before myself, but clearly some people had.

Re: Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?

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Post by ovi256 » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 11:04 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM. We @ blacksecurity are deeply saddened by the loss of a good hearted friend. At the risk (certainty?) of being downvoted, that's an interesting choice of words. For those who don't know (I didn't), it appears milw0rm is a kind of exploits database: http://www.milw0rm.com/ I had never heard of it before myself, but clearly some peopl…

It was kind of the startup of the security world, and it became popular very fast. It required a working proof-of-concept (POC) for publishing - no pie in the sky text only stuff.

Re: Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?

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Post by antirez » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 11:12 AM UTC

RIP. It's good to know that a smart guy left four children to the world, so part of his essence will continue to live.

Re: Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?

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Post by nrr » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 11:12 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM. We @ blacksecurity are deeply saddened by the loss of a good hearted friend. At the risk (certainty?) of being downvoted, that's an interesting choice of words. For those who don't know (I didn't), it appears milw0rm is a kind of exploits database: http://www.milw0rm.com/ I had never heard of it before myself, but clearly some peopl…

I can't see why you'd be downvoted. :) I'm reasonably certain that str0ke would have chuckled at that himself.

Re: Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?

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Post by ErrantX » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 11:54 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM. We @ blacksecurity are deeply saddened by the loss of a good hearted friend. At the risk (certainty?) of being downvoted, that's an interesting choice of words. For those who don't know (I didn't), it appears milw0rm is a kind of exploits database: http://www.milw0rm.com/ I had never heard of it before myself, but clearly some peopl…

milw0rm is (or was) one of the first places I check each morning for new info. I was worried about the lack of updates - and this is sad news for both the security community and, obviously, str0ke's friends and family.

RIP.

Re: Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?

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Post by Confusion » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 1:35 PM UTC

ErrantX wrote: post #8

swombat wrote: post #4

str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM. We @ blacksecurity are deeply saddened by the loss of a good hearted friend. At the risk (certainty?) of being downvoted, that's an interesting choice of words. For those who don't know (I didn't), it appears milw0rm is a kind of exploits database: http://www.milw0rm.com/ I had never heard of it before myself, but clearly some peopl…

milw0rm is (or was) one of the first places I check each morning for new info. I was worried about the lack of updates - and this is sad news for both the security community and, obviously, str0ke's friends and family. RIP.

I thought there was an announcement some time ago that he was done with milw0rm? Perhaps someone else has taken over already?

Re: Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?

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Post by ErrantX » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 1:50 PM UTC

Confusion wrote: post #9

ErrantX wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

milw0rm is (or was) one of the first places I check each morning for new info. I was worried about the lack of updates - and this is sad news for both the security community and, obviously, str0ke's friends and family. RIP.

I thought there was an announcement some time ago that he was done with milw0rm? Perhaps someone else has taken over already?

Yeh there was a lot of confusion (heh, how ironic :D) but I was under the impression he was still at the helm.

Might be wrong then.