Dan Kaminsky Quotes

United States, Computer Scientist
January 1, 2000 – April, 23, 2021.

Dan Kaminsky was 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.

Also known as Researcher

Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

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- Perfection
- Got
- Bitcoin
I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.

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- Money
- Blunt
- Gotten

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

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- Career
- Exploring
- Hacker
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

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- Reality
- Failure
- Software
It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

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- Open
- Almost
- Hacking
BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

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- Financial
- Complexity
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.

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- Money
- Pretty
- Society

It is unquestionable that Sony's code has gotten into military and government networks, and not necessarily just U.S. military and government networks.

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- Government
- Military
- Code
We're past the era where denial of service simply happens because kids are looking for a good time.

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- Service
- Denial
- ERA
There may be millions of hosts that are now vulnerable to something that they weren't vulnerable to before.

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We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.

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- Things
- Obvious
- Microsoft
The data shows that this is most likely a hundreds-of-thousands to millions of victims issue.

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- Issue
- Victims
- Millions
It's not perfect, but compared to the competition, they've made significant progress.

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Users have had the opportunity to upgrade for a long time. It's unlikely that they would choose to do so now as a result of this announcement.

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