Submission + - Len Sassaman has passed away (boingboing.net) 1
Len counted amongst his friends and associates Bram Cohen, Werner Koch, Dan Kaminsky and Phil Zimmermann. He is survived by his wife, noted programmer, sci-fi author and Boing-Boing contributor, technologist and bio-hacker Meredith L. Patterson.
Memorials and coverage also available at YCombinator, Apache.Be and Hack In The Box.