{"id":235939,"date":"2021-04-26T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cybersecurity-expert-dan-kaminsky-dead-at-42-internet-erupts-with-covid-vax-conspiracies\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:22:59","slug":"cybersecurity-expert-dan-kaminsky-dead-at-42-internet-erupts-with-covid-vax-conspiracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cybersecurity-expert-dan-kaminsky-dead-at-42-internet-erupts-with-covid-vax-conspiracies\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cybersecurity expert Dan Kaminsky dead at 42, internet erupts with COVID vax conspiracies"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cybersecurity expert Dan Kaminsky dead at 42, internet erupts with COVID vax conspiracies<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Cybersecurity expert Dan Kaminsky has died at the age of 42 \u2014 leaving his niece to battle speculation that he was killed by complications resulting from a recent COVID-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n

The tech genius\u2019s niece, Sarah, confirmed the news<\/a> over the weekend, citing diabetic ketoacidosis, a serious diabetic complication, as a cause of death. At the same time, she sought to quash reports that Kaminsky\u2019s passing was related to the coronavirus vaccine that Kaminsky tweeted<\/a> about receiving on April 12. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile his passing was sudden and unexpected for us, Dan struggled for years with diabetes and was even recently hospitalized because of it,\u201d according to the niece, whose message was posted in a tweet<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Dan would laugh at the idea of conspiracy theorists promoting anti-vax propaganda through his death,\u201d she added. \u201cBut as his family, it hurts us to see his death being used to spread lies about a vaccine that he had full faith in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaminsky is perhaps best known for his work on the Domain Name System, which is a database where internet domain names are located and translated into internet protocol addresses. In 2008, Kaminsky revealed a fundamental security flaw in the DNS at the Black Hat security conference<\/a> in Las Vegas, which led to widespread changes.<\/p>\n

Kaminsky, who also worked as an adviser to a number of Fortune 500 companies on security, was so trusted for his skills that he was selected in 2010<\/a> as one of seven people who could \u201creboot the web\u201d in the event of a catastrophic internet meltdown.<\/p>\n

Kaminsky\u2019s family statement didn\u2019t stop rumors over the technologist\u2019s death, however. QAnon followers wildly speculated about Kaminsky\u2019s death, citing his high level of security knowledge as a reason. <\/p>\n

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Dan Kaminsky, best known for his work on the Domain Name System, at the Black Hat USA 2016 conference.<\/figcaption>
Xinhua News Agency via Getty Ima<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Vice News<\/a>, on the We The Media<\/a> channel on the Telegram messaging app<\/a>, a moderator flagged Kaminsky\u2019s position as one of the seven \u201ckey-masters to the internet,\u201d speculating without any evidence that Kaminsky was killed because of his standing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter and anti-vaxxer, caused a dustup on Twitter<\/a> over Kaminsky\u2019s passing. <\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I don\u2019t want to turn on the firehose on this guy\u2019s family at a very difficult time, so I didn\u2019t want to go into this. But this person publicly reported being vaccinated; six days later his tweets abruptly stopped and less than a week that after his death was reported,\u201d he tweeted.\n <\/p><\/div>\n