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Peter Eckersley has passed away(LetsEncrypt co-founder)
FatGrizzly
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Today, On 3rd September 2022 Peter Eckersley died a very sudden death, the reason for it unknown. He had contributed a lot in the field of technology. He helped begin the resistance to the SOPA/PIPA internet blacklist legislation in addition to carrying out the first controlled tests to show that Comcast was using fake reset packets to obstruct P2P protocols. Peter Eckersley was a University of Melbourne Ph.D. in Computer Science and Law.
Peter Eckersley was the director of computer science at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Among the privacy and security efforts he has worked on with the EFF are Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, the SSL Observatory, Let’s Encrypt CA, and the latter two. In this capacity, he also fought to keep modern computing platforms open and established a campaign for open wireless networks.
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yan has been messages by peter 2 days ago saying that he has cancer.(1)
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- Message on Peter's death.
If you have ever used LetsEncrypt or Certbot, be thankful to this man co founded one of the best free CA's existing to date.
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It's so sad that we have lost Peter, my deepest condolences.
Rest in Peace great soul