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Card III-16: DAN KAMINSKY – I came up with beautiful bugs. But every time I went after the code there was a line that addressed the problem. … I’ve never seen anything like it.

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I came up with beautiful bugs. But every time I went after the code there was a line that addressed the problem. … I’ve never seen anything like it.

DAN KAMINSKY · THE NEW YORKER · 10.10.2011

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Source

Joshua Davis, “The Crypto-Currency”, The New Yorker, 10 October 2011 – Kaminsky in conversation with the author (abridged)

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About the author

American security researcher (1979–2021). Became famous in 2008 for discovering a fundamental flaw in the internet’s DNS and coordinating its fix.

The question on the back

How much respect do you have for work no one sees?