'Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42'

Quote:

'Mr. Kaminsky discovered in 2008 was a problem with the internet's basic address system, known as the Domain Name System, or DNS, a dynamic phone book that converts human-friendly web addresses like NYTimes.com and Google.com into their machine-friendly numeric counterparts. He found a way that thieves or spies could covertly manipulate DNS traffic so that a person typing the website for a bank would instead be redirected to an impostor site that could steal the user's account number and password.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/t...nsky-dead.html

only 42 ! Did he take Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy too seriously?