One of the greatest treasures of the cypherpunks community and one of the
people who made internet safer and encrypted died today.
Peter Eckersley died a sudden death. The reason is yet unknown.
He helped begin the resistance to the SOPA/PIPA internet blacklist legislation
in addition to carrying out the first controlled tests to show that Comcast was
using fake reset packets to obstruct P2P protocols. Peter Eckersley was a
University of Melbourne Ph.D. in Computer Science and Law.
Eckersley was the director of computer science at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. Among the privacy and security efforts he has worked on with the
EFF are Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, the SSL Observatory, Let’s Encrypt CA,
and the latter two. In this capacity, he also fought to keep modern computing
platforms open and established a campaign for open wireless networks.
Rest in peace. Our community and the whole internet lost a good friend and a
wonderful caretaker.
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Sincerely,
Ali Reza Hayati.
https://alirezahayati.com
