{"id":41363,"date":"2021-04-25T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41363"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:28:01","slug":"one-of-bitcoins-earliest-code-reviewers-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/one-of-bitcoins-earliest-code-reviewers-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Bitcoin&#8217;s earliest code reviewers has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Kaminsky, a renowned American cybersecurity researcher, has died at the age of 42, according to white-hat hacker and DEF CON organizer Marc Rogers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I guess theres no hiding it now. We lost <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dakami?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dakami<\/a> yesterday. One of the brightest lights in infosec and probably the kindest soul I knew. The vacuum he leaves behind is impossible to measure. Please keep speculation to yourself and be respectful of his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcwrogers\/status\/1385961838735597572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI think this can\u2019t be hidden now. Yesterday we lost Dan Kaminsky, one of the brightest lights in information security and probably the kindest soul I\u2019ve known. The vacuum he leaves behind is impossible to measure. Please keep speculation to yourself and be respectful of his family and friends,\u201d wrote Rogers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2011 Kaminsky, already widely known for discovering a critical vulnerability in the DNS protocol, decided to hack Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cCode formatting was simply insane. Only the most paranoid and meticulous programmer on the planet could avoid errors,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The expert developed nine approaches to attacks on the cryptocurrency protocol, but none of them worked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it. This is a world-class programmer with a deep knowledge of C++. He understands economics, cryptography, and peer-to-peer networks. Either this is a whole team, or this guy is a genius,\u201d Kaminsky concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Kaminsky, a renowned American cybersecurity researcher, has died at the age of 42, according to white-hat hacker and DEF CON organizer Marc Rogers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1195],"class_list":["post-41363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-white-hat-hackers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41365,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363\/revisions\/41365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}