Kaminsky Avoided Internet Ransomware
Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/daniel-kaminsky-dead.html
Security and privacy of the internet will remain beyond reach so long as it remains open for everyone. Endless efforts to discover and repair weaknesses have generated an industry of hope and failure, not unlike what national security has become: failures, revisions, more funding, more assurances, repeat.
Like the military the only successful cybersecurity and privacy will be to militarize the internet, clamp down on violators and hackers and leakers and siphoners and ransomware and advertisers and social media and discussion forums, and go so far as Myanmar, shoot the miscreants.
Gradually, the internet is being transformed into an alleged threat to national governments and thereby requiring the most stringent national security measures, nationalizing commerce, education, religion, daily intercourse into an autocratic regime where political and personal freedom and privacy must be suspended or diminished into insignificant exercise lacking what is promised in founding law.
Is this so bad, the divisiveness between official secrecy enforcers and the public's expectation to be left alone by authorities of all stripes. The few against the many works quite well in many countries, now and in the past, monarchies, tyrannies, despoties, oligarchies, capitalisms, communisms, vicarisms, nuclear-armed terrorisms, pseudo-democracies, pale-facisms, yellow-perilisms, hate others isms galore.
Mr. Kaminsky avoided the corruptive pitfalls of fame, secrecy, domination, hatred. Kudos, RIP.