Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 332
An anonymous reader points out The Register's report that Wi-Fi security expert Cédric 'Sid' Blancher has died as the result of a skydiving accident. "Among other things, the 37-year-old Blancher was a sought-after speaker on WiFi security, and in 2005 published a Python-based WiFi traffic injection tool called Wifitap. In 2006, while working for the EADS Corporate Research centre, he also put together a paper on how to exploit Skype to act as a botnet." Some of Blancher's skydiving videos are posted to Vimeo; clearly, it's something he was passionate about.
If at first you don't succeed... (Score:5, Funny)
...skydiving is not for you.
Re:look out below ! (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose a lot of people deal with tragedy through humor, but I sure wouldn't want to be a surviving family member and read some of the comments posted so far.
Seriously, it amazes me how people can fail to understand the gravity of this kind of situation.
Re: Security 101 (Score:5, Funny)
They typically don't die while skydiving. It's right after they stop skydiving.
Re:RIP (Score:3, Funny)
CORD!
friends. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's a shame (Score:4, Funny)