I would petition all other community members to appreciate the gravity of the parent's comment.

Speaking for myself as someone very early in my journey during the time when Mitnick was still active as a grey hat: he advanced our thinking about security and the nature of trust itself in ways that have never been more timely.

Paradoxically he profited personally far more as a white hat than he ever did in the grey area, his motivations were clearly not extractive. The authorities compelled him to go do lucrative things! (after persecuting him mercilessly).

RIP Kevin. We are ill equipped for the vulns of the AI, but without you we'd be helpless.