[HN Gopher] Dan Kaminsky has died
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Dan Kaminsky has died
Author : rincebrain
Score : 727 points
Date : 2021-04-24 14:25 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| haik90 wrote:
| you'll be missed Dan Kaminsky
| kchoudhu wrote:
| Oh no.
| nly wrote:
| A shock for sure. I'm sure he will be sorely missed to all of us
| who attend CCC.
|
| You can see many of his CCC talks here:
|
| https://media.ccc.de/search/?q=Dan+Kaminsky
| dominicjj wrote:
| Apart 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.
| [deleted]
| awkwardquestion wrote:
| Anyone here can reveal how he died?
|
| Just curious on what exactly happened.
| ivanmontillam wrote:
| I'm curious too. So sad he died and I'm totally in shock.
| allturtles wrote:
| The tweet says "Please keep speculation to yourself and be
| respectful of his family and friends." To me that reads as
| suicide.
| edoceo wrote:
| you didn't even follow the ask of the tweet you quoted. TF?
| allturtles wrote:
| 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.
| DanBC wrote:
| > Presumably his family already knows
|
| That's a bit of an assumption. Working out how someone
| died can be tricky.
| M2Ys4U wrote:
| >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.
| edoceo wrote:
| or you could respect the families wishes, instead of
| prioritizing your curiosity.
| elite_haxor wrote:
| "Follow the ask"...?
|
| Do you really talk like that?
| luxuryballs wrote:
| or drug overdose or vaccine side effect or private health
| condition... so many things could be speculated, I think they
| probably just mean that friends and family won't want to
| see/read the speculation comments, regardless of what it is
| (but especially if it's controversial)
| daveguy wrote:
| Vaccine side effect? Seriously? About 1000x more likely to
| be covid itself.
| luxuryballs wrote:
| yea it was an example supporting the reason why I think
| they suggested not to speculate, sounds like it must have
| been a good example :)
| catblast01 wrote:
| Unfortunately this is always an unrealistic request for
| anyone with a public profile. Those that have no desire to
| speculate won't, and it's not going to stop the curious.
| Frankly I tend to agree it is moreover an unreasonable
| request as long as no one is actively invading the privacy
| of the family.
| yownie wrote:
| Him along with Aaron Schwartz, two great hackers cut down too
| early.
| ModernMech wrote:
| It's Aaron Swartz fyi.
| rishabhd wrote:
| RIP Dan, he was a legend.
| jka wrote:
| My memory of Dan is seeing him speak on-stage at SF security
| b-sides, some time in the mid 2010s.
|
| He'd enjoyed a few drinks by the point he spoke to everyone, and
| the resulting honesty (accompanied by what I sensed as
| trepidation from the audience, about seeing a respected speaker
| in a vulnerable state) left a mark on me.
|
| He was right: software security nowadays is a swiss-cheese mess,
| and the industry isn't addressing it.
|
| His speech instructed me and perhaps others in the audience to
| deal with that new reality and adjust to it. It's tough for the
| original hacker / cypherpunk / purist mentality to adjust to. But
| it's where we are now, and it's a mindset that'll never die even
| if all of us that subscribe to it do.
|
| RIP Dan.
| rurban wrote:
| His last twitter activity was April 18
| fortran77 wrote:
| His final tweet:
|
| https://twitter.com/dakami/status/1383978072655818753
| tlb wrote:
| What a shame. I had many enjoyable conversations with him over
| the years at various events. He was a hacker's hacker and
| gentleman.
| j3th9n wrote:
| "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/
| melb-un-er wrote:
| Oh no! I met Dan during my time first working on DNS in 2008. He
| came to many of us with the cache poisoning bug he discovered and
| pulled us together to address the vulnerabilities before it
| became public. I remember thinking thank god this guy is using
| his powers for good, because the damage he could easily do would
| be significant. After that I ran into him numerous times over the
| years, at conferences and airports (we seemed to always be
| leaving or arriving from different places at the same time), and
| he was always so kind, interesting and interested. I feel lucky
| to have known him. The works is a sadder, emptier place today.
| randomhodler84 wrote:
| Dan is a legend and great defender of the internet. His research
| made us safer, and his guidance made us more secure. We will miss
| you Dan, and may your memory and spirit resolve and soar through
| the clouds.
| rdl wrote:
| Dan was basically the best example of "infectious enthusiasm"
| combined with being really smart and interested in a lot of
| stuff. He was one of the first "security people" who got
| interested in bitcoin as a network, plus all his DNS stuff, and a
| lot of other things. He's going to be missed by a lot of people
| around the world for a long time.
| Dieselroar88 wrote:
| Dan was a wonderful human. I truly cannot believe that he took
| the time to help create something with me.
|
| Absolutely god damn heart breaking.
|
| A wonderful reminder that true brilliance and humanity can
| coexist.
|
| Thank you for everything
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| I'm shocked. I didn't know Dan except via Twitter. What happened?
|
| He was so curious about everything that it caught my attention,
| and I'm not just saying that. He pointed out how good the GPT-Neo
| samples were, which I hadn't seen before.
|
| I didn't know he was anything except an enthusiastic person
| interested in AI. He even tried to help me with my M1 build of
| tensorflow.
| https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adakami%20to%3Atheshawwn&...
|
| I'll miss him.
| floatingatoll wrote:
| Regarding your question, the link above answers it: "Please
| keep speculation to yourself and be respectful of his family
| and friends."
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| I was just in mild shock. I clicked through his Twitter
| profile and saw his icon, and my heart dropped.
|
| Perhaps appreciate the people around you, I suppose. Never
| know when they'll be the last words you exchange with them.
| edgan wrote:
| He will be dearly missed. :(
|
| He gave the best Defcon talks.
| cyberlab wrote:
| You can watch one of his talks here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGwol-keXM and here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneBjc8z0DE
|
| He always had a certain _eccentricity_ to him. I never met him in
| person. He always was the prototypical nerd judging from his
| talks and mannerisms.
| acdha wrote:
| I briefly met him at Toorcon in the early 2000s and was
| impressed with how he combined that eccentricity with high-
| energy: if the internet didn't get more secure, it wasn't for
| lack of trying on his part.
| rincebrain wrote:
| For the interested, someone [1] is putting together a
| collection of videos of him, so you can probably find a whole
| lot more in the replies to that thread even if you don't wait
| for the playlist to be made.
|
| [1] -
| https://twitter.com/thedarktangent/status/138595909778312806...
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| That's the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat.
| saul_goodman wrote:
| Damn. Fuck.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I did not know him (but I have heard his name for years), but,
| from the comments here, I feel that the industry has lost a great
| humanitarian, as well as a skilled and talented person.
|
| So sorry for the loss.
| borski wrote:
| 'dang, can we get a black bar for Dan? I can't think of many
| people who deserve it more.
| ryan-c wrote:
| I remember attending Dan Kaminsky's talk at DEFCON 12 and being
| blown away by it. Three years later, I went on the original
| "Hackers on a Plane" trip and ended up seated next to Dan on one
| of the flights. We quickly became friends. His mentorship over
| the years had an enormous impact on me.
|
| We both went back to CCCamp in 2011. I excitedly told him about a
| reverse DNS scanning project (0.0.0.0/0 in 12 hours on AWS for
| like $50), and then we ended up talking about the Debian RNG bug
| and password security, walking around camp watching the lightning
| in the distance.
|
| When I was doing my original brainwallet research back in 2013
| and cracked the woodchuck wallet the first thing I did after
| showing my ex (then girlfriend) was call him. I told him I'd
| found something but didn't feel comfortable discussing over the
| phone. He invited me over.
|
| My ex and I hopped on BART headed into SF and met him at the loft
| he was living at above a motorcycle shop. We talked and carefully
| planned and then I accidentally made 250 BTC vanish.
|
| Dan looked at me and said "[my ex] and I are going to go for a
| walk and return with burritos. You're going to calm down and have
| this fixed by the time we get back. It'll be okay."
|
| It was, and I did. I'd simply forgotten about change addresses
| for a brief moment of terror.
|
| I think the first time he mentioned wanting to hire me was a few
| months later at a Bitcoin conference in San Jose. He believed in
| me. I went on to work alongside him at White Ops (now known as
| Human Security) in 2014. He brought me on stage with him at
| DEFCON that year.
|
| He spent a lot of time helping me put together a CFP submission
| about my brainwallet research for DEFCON the following year and
| then helped me put together slides, rehearse, and had a
| professional help me refine everything. I couldn't have done it
| without him.
|
| My wedding was about six weeks before DEFCON - Dan showed up in
| an Uber, about an hour late. He explained that he'd confused
| Menlo Park for Morgan Hill when planning to leave. I was just
| thrilled to have him there.
|
| Dan was a supportive friend, a great mentor, and a delightful
| colleague. I really can't overstate what a positive impact he had
| on my life. It's hard to believe he's really gone. That I'll
| never get to swap stories about our respective side projects with
| him again.
|
| I miss him.
|
| https://rya.nc/threads/dakami-eulogy.html
|
| https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1385989257638993922
| DeleGiwa wrote:
| Rest in Peace Dan Kaminsky
|
| https://www.theartsofentertainment.com/dan-kaminsky-death-da...
| andrewnicolalde wrote:
| Wow... I remember recreating his DNS cache poisoning attack in
| one of the courseworks I did in my second year of university. I
| always thought it was incredibly clever...
| quakeguy wrote:
| I did too, and it makes me so sad to read the news just now.
| sneak wrote:
| Dan always went out of his way to do nice things based on his
| resources and connections to benefit me, when he totally didn't
| need to. A lot of the great things and people in my life came
| from him.
|
| The world is worse off without him.
| [deleted]
| burtonator wrote:
| This really hits me hard. Dan was the kind of guy you read about
| and were almost intimidated by his work. Then you met the guy and
| realized he's just an awesome guy.
|
| This just insanely sad. I'm really sick of hearing about my
| friends passing - especially when they're brilliant.
| [deleted]
| jpgvm wrote:
| Loss of a legend, CCC and Blackhat will never be the same.
| sakebomb wrote:
| You will deeply be missed @dakami
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| Aw poop. Nicest guy I ever met in the hacker scene. Sending best
| wishes and love to his friends and family.
| bitexploder wrote:
| I first met Dan on Slashdot over 20 years ago. Over a decade
| after I first met him on Slashdot I got into information security
| and had the opportunity to share a few meals and hangout with Dan
| now and again. His natural curiosity about all technology is what
| I always will remember about Dan. He was such a good
| technologist. RIP.
|
| Edit: plus watching him and tqbf argue on Twitter about stuff was
| always fun.
| psaux wrote:
| Dan was a great soul and genius, this is very sad to hear. Dan
| made life fun, my stomach would hurt from laughing so hard with
| him. I am looking over our chats, and found a video he sent me
| that I can't stop watching. He was working on streaming VM state
| to the cloud and decided a mouse wasn't fun, so busted out a
| turntable to control it in realtime. It totally worked and was
| way better! He even starts making record scratching sounds. I
| love how someone posted the DEFCON shot of his nap, that made me
| smile! Remember those moments of joy.
|
| Much love to his family and friends.
| [deleted]
| Rafuino wrote:
| I met him at Defcon 21 and ran across him again when I was
| running a developer hardware access project in my last job just a
| couple years back. He struck me as incredibly curious (as a
| hacker must be!) and was a pleasure to work with. The friends who
| introduced me to him at Defcon are devastated for a reason...
| rest in peace.
| atdrummond wrote:
| Could we respect the wish of those close to the deceased to keep
| speculation as to the cause of death private?
| idlewords wrote:
| It's human nature and not reprehensible to wonder what happened
| when someone you care about dies.
| atdrummond wrote:
| I don't think anyone questioning is reprehensible. I simply
| don't think it's too much to ask to keep that discussion to
| less public channels in the aftermath of his death, as it's a
| fairly reasonable and low burden request.
| awkwardquestion wrote:
| No. It is not their place to try to restrain the curiosity of
| others.
| jtbayly wrote:
| If they don't want speculation, they need to give facts.
| Otherwise all we have is wondering, which naturally leads to
| speculation.
|
| I don't mind them not giving facts. I just think it's silly to
| not give facts and then tell people not to speculate.
| alisonkisk wrote:
| There's nothing silly about requesting decent behavior, even
| if not everyone will agree to the request.
| FDSGSG wrote:
| A reasonable wish, but it's hardly surprising that such a
| request is only going to invite more speculation.
| fidesomnes wrote:
| no. right to know.
| leethacker3 wrote:
| Suicide or drugs? I'm betting drugs
| Lethabow wrote:
| Died yesterday. RIP
| https://www.latestnewssouthafrica.com/2021/04/24/security-re...
| billyhoffman wrote:
| I met Dan at FooCamp in 2004. I was a college kid at the time and
| a weekend event of people like Larry Wall or Ester Dyson was
| super intimidating.
|
| I was feeling a little isolated and lonely when I saw this guy in
| a black 2600 tshirt over by the "FooBar" bar and thought "finally
| someone I can talk to!" He was so welcoming and engaging it broke
| the ice and made the whole weekend worth it. We started talking
| about tunneling various protocols over DNS and ended up doing a
| midnight stroll with Fyodor all around Sevastopol looking for
| "interesting" things.
|
| That's the kind of guy Dan was. Everyone felt his warmth.
|
| Dan was a rare mix of genius with an over the top personality.
| Seeing what crazy RFC-bending project Dan was doing was one of
| the best things about going out to Blackhat, DEFCON, or RSA. He
| is easily one of the best presenters I've ever seen: a perfect
| blend of compelling story, esoteric tech details, and those
| classic Dan mischievous grins.
|
| I will miss you dearly Dan
| vabmit wrote:
| RIP, Dan. I work with a lot of very smart people. So, I've gotten
| a bit used to it and don't normally find myself in awe of many
| people's intelligence. Dan was a person that I was absolutely in
| awe of. The fist time I met him very long ago (almost 20 years),
| he showed me code he wrote to share movies through abused DNS
| slaves... building a p2p network like Napser/Gnutella from the
| technology. No one had ever thought of such a thing. I don't
| think anyone else in the world knew DNS well enough to be
| inspired to think of it. He was so kind and friendly to everyone.
| It was fun to talk with him about tech/security because he had
| such enthusiasm and excitement... like a little kid on Christmas
| or a puppy. :) I learned a lot from him. I have nothing but great
| memories of him. I remember once when someone hacked him. He even
| took that in good humor and didn't let it bother him.
| mmaunder wrote:
| RIP Dan.
|
| https://youtu.be/RAGwol-keXM
| lawrenceyan wrote:
| Through it all, there were those who fought valiantly against the
| tsunami of fakery and fabrication, generating new methods and
| protocols to hold back the tide undermining consensus reality.
|
| Rest in peace Dan.
| alisonkisk wrote:
| The tweet is a strange announcement. Usually an announcement like
| this is by or refers to next of kin sharing the news.
|
| Is Marc Rogers Dan's family, or close friend?
| hedgehog wrote:
| Marc is among other things longtime DEFCON staff.
| omnibrain wrote:
| ;(
|
| @dang can we get a black bar please?
| matznerd wrote:
| +1
| samgranieri wrote:
| I agree with @omnibrain here and second his request. @dang, can
| we get a black bar?
| gauravphoenix wrote:
| Third
| aestetix wrote:
| agreed as well
| Tomte wrote:
| And if any of you had simply e-mailed dang, it might have
| already happened.
| jonbaer wrote:
| +1
| QUFB wrote:
| Peak HN 2021: No black bar, and downvotes for the suggestion.
| adfm wrote:
| I first met Dan in Santa Clara at some event when he came over to
| our table and showed off some ssh fu. We'd reconnect at events
| every so often and he'd always share his latest interest. I
| recall once Dan turning me on to the unique world of software
| produced and shared primarily by doctors who code by opening a
| video of a jet engine crash landing in an MRI viewer app. The
| time after that, he was telling me about going to see the new
| Star Trek movie that had just come out and how his friend
| couldn't see the green alien lady, which led him to build one of
| the first truly useful applications of augmented reality with his
| colorblindness app.
|
| When people say Dan Kaminski was a hacker's hacker, it's with
| good cause. Not only did he defend the Internet from itself, but
| he changed the way people see the world. He put a noticeable dent
| in the universe.
| davidu wrote:
| I 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.
| eplanit wrote:
| 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.
| xbar wrote:
| I was there that year, too. And the year before and after.
| And at ToorCon that year, which was tiny and it was great to
| talk to him there. Many of my journeys to conferences were
| because he was on the docket.
|
| A true inspiration in infosec.
| [deleted]
| tyingq wrote:
| _" I was lucky to collaborate on DNS issues with Dan when he
| discovered a new form of DNS cache poisoning"_
|
| A really good, and really detailed, overview of what Kaminsky
| found: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-kaminsky-dns-
| vuln.htm... Kaminsky references this from the sidebar in his
| blog.
| qyi wrote:
| Heard of him since his DNS vulns. Never read or watched his
| presentations until recently. It was a breath of fresh air seeing
| him talk. I thought "this is a true hacker. no corporate BS".
| Damn.
| ttul wrote:
| Dan 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.
| WesleyHale wrote:
| He sounds like a real role model.
|
| Thank you for sharing.
| laurex wrote:
| Dan sublet my apartment a number of years ago, and it was a
| thrill to see the impact of his work over time. I'm very sad to
| hear this news.
| rmac wrote:
| Seeing him present his work on stage at DC was one of those
| things I'll never forget: the technical excellence, the dazzling
| visualizations, his comfortable and confident style, and whether
| you agreed with it or not -- his own point of view, not a thinly
| veiled corporate / gov / academic shill.
|
| Dan: streams a tv show over DNS
|
| Crowd: goes wild
|
| He was one of the ones who I aspire to be: to show others they
| can do .*
| wheresmycraisin wrote:
| Dan was exceptionally good at explaining his complex work, and he
| always did so with 100% passion. He will be missed.
| Communitivity wrote:
| A sad day. A legend has passed - legendary for his skills, for
| his generosity, and for his personality. He was a true
| renaissance man - hacker, writer, presenter, philantropist,
| piano-player, composer, and good guy.
| HugoDaniel wrote:
| :( RIP
| [deleted]
| quelsolaar wrote:
| I 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
| jamesmishra wrote:
| I read comments like this and wonder whether--after I die--
| everybody will mock me for every moment I forgot my wallet.
|
| I maybe forget my wallet once per year, but I'd like to think
| that my friends have forgiven me for it. (And I always Venmo my
| share of the bill anyway.)
| nomy99 wrote:
| I guess there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
| 1cvmask wrote:
| I think you got the better end of the deal. Similar things have
| happened to me and I am happy to have known them and the joy
| they added to our transient lives.
| fefe23 wrote:
| You may have misread the situation.
|
| I have known him for decades, and I have never seen him take
| advantage of another person. Not ever. Not even once.
|
| If he said he forgot to bring money, then he probably did.
|
| Let us raise a cup to his name. A kind soul and an inspiration
| to us all.
| atdrummond wrote:
| For what it's worth, he had left his wallet elsewhere at a
| large dinner where a friend ended up paying for the group
| anyway.
|
| They didn't expect him to pay and yet he paid them back
| fairly promptly and actually gave a few cents more than he
| technically owed - which he claimed was interest at the
| prevailing rate.
|
| I certainly don't see him "hacking" his way to a free dinner
| on a(n) (un)suspecting victim.
| igetspam wrote:
| Agreed. I've eaten and had many drinks with Dan. He was
| generous. Never cared about throwing a few bucks down to
| help someone else eat or drink. We often had very large
| group dinners at conferences and Dan typically threw in a
| few extra to cover those who weren't as well off. (Standard
| practice for these things.) Definitely feels like a
| misread.
| quelsolaar wrote:
| > You may have misread the situation.
|
| Very true. Either way, I didn't feel taken advantage of. He
| truly was special, and I'm incredibly happy I got to spend
| some time with him.
| [deleted]
| samatman wrote:
| 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.
| varelse wrote:
| 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.
| sneak wrote:
| Does 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.
| ryan-c wrote:
| https://rya.nc/files/paketto-2.00pre5.tar.gz
|
| I'm not sure whether I got it directly from him or if I had a
| saved copy, but that's the most recent version.
| ryan-c wrote:
| Yeah, I have a copy.
| achillean wrote:
| It's where I learned about stateless scanning. Without scanrand
| and its stateless scanning technique Shodan wouldn't have been
| possible.
| synack wrote:
| There's an old version here
| https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/30489/paketto-1.10.tar...
| thathndude wrote:
| I'm not in the industry. But I instantly recognize the name from
| the occasional touches I have with info sec. that tells me all I
| need to know About how big of a loss this is.
|
| Condolences to those who knew him.
| madrox wrote:
| I met Dan at BarcampLA, and his talks stuck with me. I've relived
| moments from those talks throughout my career, and I'm a more
| security conscious person because of it. He was one of those rare
| security folks that still retained his fundamentally optimistic
| view of humanity, though I think that may be rare of any human
| now that I think about it. If Tomorrowland were an actual thing,
| Dan definitely would've been invited. I hope he knew how much he
| inspired.
| 1cvmask wrote:
| 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.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack
| automathematics wrote:
| RIP to a legend
| filmgirlcw wrote:
| H 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.
| blondie9x wrote:
| Does anyone know what happened?
| wsostt wrote:
| Read the tweet
| jamesrcole wrote:
| The tweet says "Please keep speculation to yourself". Whether
| you think it's appropriate or not, asking if anyone knows
| what happened is not the same as asking for speculation.
| Ar-Curunir wrote:
| The former inevitably asks for speculation, especially
| given the short timeframe and lack of information involved.
| VectorLock wrote:
| I think it also unfortunately fuels the darker
| speculations rather than quells them.
| leethacker3 wrote:
| I read it.
|
| So what happened? Drugs? COVID?
| dijit wrote:
| 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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| sneak wrote:
| Asking for facts is not speculating, it might be the
| opposite.
|
| I'd like to know what happened to my friend, who was himself
| always in pursuit of the truth.
| DaniloDias wrote:
| If it is another overdose, I'm going to be deeply annoyed
| with Marc. There is a real problem in this industry and we
| shouldn't be burying our heads.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| There's plenty of time for one then the other.
|
| I don't think the curiosity to know is just for curiosity
| alone. I think it serves a purpose for everyone to bear
| witness to the kinds of things that take us.
| rediguanayum wrote:
| RIP thank you Dan for making the internet a safer place.
| samatman wrote:
| December 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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