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19 hours ago, Stella Link said:

Anyone have Henry Darrow?? 

He apparently passes away a month ago.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/henry-darrow-actor-on-the-high-chaparral-dies-at-87

Man, the High Chaparral fan site's front page news is just nothing but actors dying

http://www.thehighchaparral.com/index.htm#contents

 

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RIP, Fritz.  

Please don't tell me he'll be lumped in with DMX and Prince Philip in the "set of three"?  He was way too influential for that.  

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Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42

Daniel Kaminsky, a security researcher known for his discovery of a fundamental flaw in the fabric of the internet, died on Friday at his home in San Francisco. He was 42.

His aunt, Dr. Toby Maurer, said the cause was diabetes ketoacidosis, a serious diabetic condition that led to his frequent hospitalization in recent years.

In 2008, Mr. Kaminsky was widely hailed as a latter-day, digital Paul Revere after he found a serious flaw in the internet’s basic plumbing that could allow skilled coders to take over websites, siphon off bank credentials or even shut down the internet. Mr. Kaminsky alerted the Department of Homeland Security, executives at Microsoft and Cisco, and other internet security experts to the problem and helped spearhead a patch.

He was a respected practitioner of “penetration testing,” the business of compromising the security of computer systems at the behest of owners who want to harden their systems from attack. It was a profession that his mother, Trudy Maurer, said he first developed a knack for at 4 years old after his father gifted him a computer from Radio Shack. By age 5, Mrs. Maurer said, Mr. Kaminsky had taught himself to code.

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