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Peter G. Neumann and the Hacking Culture of the ’50s
- drallison 14y agoThis is an outstanding article profiling Peter G. Neumann. Highly recommended.
- pasbesoin 14y agoI take it you mean in particular the related article that jonjacky links in another comment here. The OP article is pretty brief and superficial. The related article is a good newspaper article with some significant biographical background.
- jonjacky 14y agoThis appears to be a followup to the longer story that appeared in the NYT Science section on Tuesday, also posted on HN to almost no comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714328 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714328 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716240 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716240 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4720637 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4720637 That story discussed Neumann's work on the DARPA-funded Clean Slate project to "build something new from the bottom up" to respond to security problems. Neumann is beginning this 5-year project at age 80 -- an interesting response to the "do you still want to be doing this at age 55" thread.
- pasbesoin 14y agoI initially skipped the linked story because the (original, NYT-provided) title came across as excessively hokey, leading me to suspect some hyperbolic content. This is a case where I would have appreciated a bracketed qualification in the HN title.