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You may have heard that Peter Neumann passed away yesterday at the age of 93.
I cannot do his memory and legacy justice here, but I will say that his work (and friendship and support) influenced almost everything I've worked on. He was one of the first computer scientists to confront (well before it was popular to do so) the fact that computers and software are unreliable in both theory and practice.
@mattblaze His RISKS digest was always interesting (and often alarming). RIP
@mattblaze sorry to hear that. The Risks newsletter inspired me to get into cybersecurity
@mattblaze I'm unfamiliar with him/his work; could you maybe provide a tiny summary or pointer to his confrontations with unreliability? That sounds like an interesting topic
@mattblaze comp.risks came as a revelation to me when I first stumbled onto the listserv in 1989.
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