Tag Archives: defcon
RIP: Peter Eckersley
Earlier this year – I wrote a short post about Aaron Swartz. And now unfortunately, Aaron’s old roommate also just passed away on 09/02/2022. Some of his major accomplishments are the following: Founding Lets Encrypt Developing Cert Bot Privacy Badger Chief Computer Scientist @EFF HTTPS Everywhere Assisting with COVID19 mitigation The above list is just…
RIP: Dan Kaminsky
Sad to hear Dan Kaminsky passed away yesterday at the young age of 42. He was an amazing researcher and teacher – and a true pioneer in privacy. He dates back to 2005 – helping expose the Sony Rootkit scandal [LINK] as well as hardening DNS. What troubles me the most about this, is how…