Dan Kaminsky, S.F. native and pioneer of internet security, dies at 42
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Daniel Kaminsky at a computer convention in 2000.Angie Roberts
Dan Kaminsky was an 11-year-old computer whiz working all night behind his bedroom door in St. Francis Wood when his mother, Trudy Maurer, got a phone call alerting her to what her son was up to.
The call came from the internet administrator of the Western U.S., warning her that someone in the house was “looking around in places where he should not be looking,” specifically military sites, and that he should stop under threat of seeing the family connection shut down.