Wikileaks death: Dutch hacking expert 'had kayaking accident'

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    [–]Mnemonic 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    He was a renowned cyber-security-expert, here a TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVlCozNcCw

    [–]sodasplash 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Some people are loud and proud.

    [–]Ian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    How do you mean, in general or while on vacation?

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      [–]Ian 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

      He was a public person before he got involved with WL afaik, he provided security solutions for journalists and dissidents (which is something that paints a target on anyones back, WL or not).

      [–][deleted] 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Well tbh Computers have very good government spyware know a days You can only be safe by building your own computer and motherboard from legit scratch scrap metal and sand

      [–]Ian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Open source is the solution and it's coming, step by step. There's already open source operating systems and devices that tries to negate the problem and open source processors are on the horizon.

      Sure the complexity will make so nasty code can still hide in the system but it's a whole new ballgame.