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  • comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago

    From David LaRue@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 13:52:24
    I went to Peter's Risks Site this morning to see why the feed seems to have stopped. The site mentions that he died a few months ago. It also mentions that the site will be maintained for a while, but that there will be no further posts.

    He was a long standing source of documented problems to avoid making since before email as we know it today was standardized. No industry was spared.

    Forgive me if this has been posted already.

    Long live https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ and PGN's contributions to computing and elsewhere!

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  • From Scott Lurndal@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 14:54:15
    David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
    I went to Peter's Risks Site this morning to see why the feed seems to have >stopped. The site mentions that he died a few months ago. It also mentions >that the site will be maintained for a while, but that there will be no >further posts.

    He was a long standing source of documented problems to avoid making since >before email as we know it today was standardized. No industry was spared.

    Forgive me if this has been posted already.

    Long live https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ and PGN's contributions to >computing and elsewhere!

    Sad.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Neumann

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  • From Ian@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 17:01:50
    On 2026-06-16, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
    David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
    I went to Peter's Risks Site this morning to see why the feed seems to have >>stopped. The site mentions that he died a few months ago. It also mentions >>that the site will be maintained for a while, but that there will be no >>further posts.

    He was a long standing source of documented problems to avoid making since >>before email as we know it today was standardized. No industry was spared. >>
    Forgive me if this has been posted already.

    Long live https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ and PGN's contributions to >>computing and elsewhere!

    Sad.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Neumann

    RIP. He will be missed.

    --
    Ian

    "Tamahome!!!" - "Miaka!!!"

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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 02:57:54
    On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:52:24 -0000 (UTC), David LaRue wrote:

    I went to Peter's Risks Site this morning to see why the feed seems
    to have stopped. The site mentions that he died a few months ago.

    Surprised and dismayed to learn that.

    He was a long standing source of documented problems to avoid making
    since before email as we know it today was standardized. No industry
    was spared.

    That he was. I remember several incidents well.

    His Y2K coverage was, shall we say, a bit more even-handed than some
    others ...

    Forgive me if this has been posted already.

    News to me, anyway.

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  • From David Lesher@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 23:09:33
    David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

    I went to Peter's Risks Site this morning to see why the feed seems to have >stopped. The site mentions that he died a few months ago. It also mentions >that the site will be maintained for a while, but that there will be no >further posts.

    ...

    Long live https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ and PGN's contributions to >computing and elsewhere!

    Peter was a friend of mine. There are few days that I do not miss him
    and his gigantic contributation to data security in general.
    --
    A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com
    & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
    Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
    is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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