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The problem is no one's confirming it. Just a memorial page isn't much to go on. No one on Twitter, Reddit, or Hacker News is stepping up to say specifically "I know all about this and know independently of this memorial page that Kevin is dead". Entities like 2600 or Jason Scott are just retweeting the memorial. Is Kevin Mitnick dead? Probably yes. But given that he was famous in particular for social engineering, there's a bit of niggling doubt there about him or someone else up to shenanigans... --
Gwern (contribs) 01:09 20 July 2023 (GMT)
Can someone protect the page to stop the back-and-forth unsourced edit-warring?
Nicolas09F9 (
talk) 01:32, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Yet another source
[2], not to mention the Obituary is definitely legit. --
Neøn (
talk) 01:42, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
And now
the Sun as well. I think this should be enough.
Replysixty (
talk) 01:46, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
I guess there's no way to block the reverts that will predictably follow.. --
Neøn (
talk) 01:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
After a discussion with
User:GeneralNotability (
/info/en/?search=User_talk:GeneralNotability#Kevin_Mitnick) I've restored what I believe was the best version to come out of this back-and-forth editing, featuring the obituary and the SecurityWeek article. At this point, the back-and-forth has mostly slowed, so hopefully we can leave it at this...
demize(
t ·
c) 02:11, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Confirmed by multiple sources, including New York Times. See:
[3]Lexlex (
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He died on the 16th of july not the 19th of july
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The problem is no one's confirming it. Just a memorial page isn't much to go on. No one on Twitter, Reddit, or Hacker News is stepping up to say specifically "I know all about this and know independently of this memorial page that Kevin is dead". Entities like 2600 or Jason Scott are just retweeting the memorial. Is Kevin Mitnick dead? Probably yes. But given that he was famous in particular for social engineering, there's a bit of niggling doubt there about him or someone else up to shenanigans... --
Gwern (contribs) 01:09 20 July 2023 (GMT)
Can someone protect the page to stop the back-and-forth unsourced edit-warring?
Nicolas09F9 (
talk) 01:32, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Yet another source
[2], not to mention the Obituary is definitely legit. --
Neøn (
talk) 01:42, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
And now
the Sun as well. I think this should be enough.
Replysixty (
talk) 01:46, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
I guess there's no way to block the reverts that will predictably follow.. --
Neøn (
talk) 01:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
After a discussion with
User:GeneralNotability (
/info/en/?search=User_talk:GeneralNotability#Kevin_Mitnick) I've restored what I believe was the best version to come out of this back-and-forth editing, featuring the obituary and the SecurityWeek article. At this point, the back-and-forth has mostly slowed, so hopefully we can leave it at this...
demize(
t ·
c) 02:11, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Confirmed by multiple sources, including New York Times. See:
[3]Lexlex (
talk) 20:29, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 July 2023 (2)
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edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.
He died on the 16th of july not the 19th of july
ComuterK1d (
talk) 02:08, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply