Dan Kaminsky
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Dan Kaminsky
Dan Kaminsky is an American security researcher. He is the Chief Scientist of White Ops, a firm specializing in detecting malware activity via JavaScript. He has worked for Cisco, Avaya, and IOActive, where he was the Director of Penetration Testing. He is known among computer security experts for his work on DNS cache poisoning, and for showing that the Sony Rootkit had infected at least 568,200 computers and for his talks at the Black Hat Briefings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
large spent
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
hosts millions vulnerable
There may be millions of hosts that are now vulnerable to something that they weren't vulnerable to before.
compared
It's not perfect, but compared to the competition, they've made significant progress.
consequences fast incredibly loops software tends tolerable
Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
computer exploit network networks
BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
applied basically deal global money proven society
The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.
denial era good happens kids looking past service simply
We're past the era where denial of service simply happens because kids are looking for a good time.
microsoft obvious point
We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.