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Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37

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.

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  1. Re:That's a shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're a depressed virgin, aren't you?