Yeah, just saw an obit on BoingBoing which was why I dialed-in to the Cypherpunks cortege. Sucks.
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:47:17 -0500 From: measl@mfn.org To: eugen@leitl.org CC: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net; info@postbiota.org Subject: Bad Mojo Day Redux: Robert Morris dead at 84 [was RIP Len Sassaman]
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Horrific news, as I am certain everyone here will agree. Len was a one-off who will be urgently missed on a daily basis for generations to come. Len "Wrote Code", "Ran Code", and everything else in-between. Never refusing a request for help, he gave more of himself on an average day than many give of themselves in decades. Peace out Len.
Immediately on the heels of Len's earthshattering newsquake comes the first aftershock: Robert Morris is [finally?] dead at 78. At least Morris got to finish most if not all of his meal before he checked out:
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/07/03/news/mathematician-and-cryptographer-r... bert-morris-dies-helped-launch-unix/?ref=latest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-morris-a-developer-of-... nix-dies-at-78/2011/06/30/AG5PwbsH_story.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/124957294.html
Etc...
This is a July 4th weekend that the crypto and computing communities will remember for a very long time to come :-((
I sincerely hope there's no "third" to "round out" the already bad news today.
//Alif
-- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.