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[–] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

What a legend, fuck cancer.

[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ghost in the Wires is a great book of his with lots of early hacking shenanigans in it. Highly recommend.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I really loved The Art of Deception. So many fascinating cases.

[–] Beaupedia@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Sad to hear. Enjoyed him as a guest in the early days of This Week in Tech. Brilliant mind.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I watched the Disrupt video on him literally yesterday. Rest in peace.

[–] Kyoyeou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Will his casket be a blue box?

RIP.

[–] rayman30@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hex(0xDEADBEEF) Rip Kevin

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Phantom phreaking.

[–] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 5 points 1 year ago

Shit. Now I need to watch takedown again.

[–] just_change_it@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way younger than I expected. 59 is young.

His wife looks like she's 18 based on social media photos.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

She's pregnant with his first child. I don't know how old she is, but 60 is pretty old for your first child. But besides the cancer, he seemed to be happy.

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Gone to the great terminal in the sky. RIP.

[–] zerbey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a legend, and that's a shitty way to go. Sorry for his family.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

Specially the part about him not doing it for money. He was just intellectually curious and wanted to see if he could do it. Same reason a lot of us enjoy programming at home.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is ‘Freedom Downtime’ the 2600 documentary that covers some of his story and the Free Kevin movement. https://youtu.be/B2ac98FUMq8

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[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Damn. RIP to a real one.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Man, I remember reading about blue boxes and chrome boxes and not fully understanding it all, but it was fun learning about that stuff.