The Register reports
on the death of security researcher Dan Kaminsky. “Though Kaminsky rose to fame in 2008 for identifying a critical design weakness in the internet’s infrastructure – and worked in secret with software developers to mitigate the issue before it could be easily exploited – he had worked behind the scenes in the infosec world for at least the past two decades.“

Source: LWN.net – Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky (The Register)