It's always a good reminder that everybody can, and will, die at some point. Peter Eckersley, who worked his whole life to build an open and secure Internet, died on September 2, 2022 at the age of 43. [10][11], Eckersley moved to the United States, settling in San Francisco, California. by After all, end-to-end encryption of web traffic isnt only about keeping the actual content youre viewing confidential. Edit (September 17): Peter's family confirmed that Peter was born in 1978 and was 44 when he died. Duck is great at them. No new comments can be posted. As you say, Peter had cancer. ; Peter Eckersley; Avustralyal bilgisayar bilimcisi ve aktivist (19782022); informaticien et activiste australien; an rajin kare hakin an adam kuma masanin komputa an asar Austiraliya; Australian computer scientist, security researcher, and activist (1978/19792022); , ; Australiese rekenaarwetenskaplike en aktivis; Australisch informaticus en activist (1979-2022); Peter Daniel Eckersley; Peter Daniel Eckersley; Peter Daniel Eckersley; Pde; Peter Daniel Eckersley; Peter Daniel Eckersley; ; pde; Peter Daniel Eckersley; pde; Peter Daniel Eckersley; pde; Peter Daniel Eckersley; Peter Daniel Eckersley; pde; Peter Daniel Eckersley; pde; Peter Daniel Eckersley; Peter Daniel Eckersley, Australian computer scientist, security researcher, and activist (1978/19792022), Last edited on 13 September 2022, at 06:17, Peter Eckersley in San Francisco (March 2022).jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Peter_Eckersley_(computer_scientist)&oldid=688360441, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Partnership on AI (directeur de recherche, 20182020). In the sources I men. During covid he worked intensely on private contact tracing algorithms. You are currently not logged in as a member of MyHeritage. It's amazing that social media including reddit undergoes meltdown over Elon Musk or Bill Gates or some new reveal about how Google or Facebook are violating user privacy. Sophos Home protects every Mac and PC in your home. After 'Quiet Quitting', Here Comes 'Quiet Firing', GNU Grep 3.8 Starts Issuing Warnings About Using Egrep and Fgrep, Men take only their needs into consideration -- never their abilities. One of my favorite types of articles here. Discover your ancestry - search Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, census records, immigration lists and other records - all in one family search! As a result, the Lets Encrypt project was soon able to to gain the trust of the browser making community, to the point of quickly getting accepted as a approved certificate signer (a trusted-by-default root CA, in the jargon) by most mainstream browsers.