{"id":22731,"date":"2021-04-27T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22731"},"modified":"2021-04-27T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:34:03","slug":"obit-watch-april-27-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22731","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: April 27, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYT<\/strong> has published an obit for Dan Kaminsky<\/a> that’s both respectful and timely.<\/p>\n

His childhood paralleled the 1983 movie \u201cWar Games,\u201d in which a young child, played by Matthew Broderick, unwittingly accesses a U.S. military supercomputer. When Mr. Kaminsky was 11, his mother said, she received an angry phone call from someone who identified himself as a network administrator for the Western United States. The administrator said someone at her residence was \u201cmonkeying around in territories where he shouldn\u2019t be monkeying around.\u201d<\/a>
\nWithout her knowledge, Mr. Kaminsky had been examining military websites. The administrator vowed to \u201cpunish\u201d him by cutting off the family\u2019s internet access. Mrs. Maurer warned the administrator that if he made good on his threat, she would take out an advertisement in The San Francisco Chronicle denouncing the Pentagon\u2019s security.<\/a>
\n\u201cI will take out an ad that says, \u2018Your security is so crappy, even an 11-year-old can break it,\u2019\u201d Mrs. Maurer recalled telling the administrator, in an interview on Monday.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

When his talk was complete, Mr. Kaminsky was approached by a stranger in the crowd. It was the administrator who had kicked Mr. Kaminsky off the internet years earlier. Now, he wanted to thank Mr. Kaminsky and to ask for an introduction to \u201cthe meanest mother he ever met.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NYT has published an obit for Dan Kaminsky that’s both respectful and timely. His childhood paralleled the 1983 movie \u201cWar Games,\u201d in which a young child, played by Matthew Broderick, unwittingly accesses a U.S. military supercomputer. When Mr. Kaminsky was 11, his mother said, she received an angry phone call from someone who identified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions\/22733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}