Peter Eckersley Cause Of Death

Peter Daniel Eckersley, an Australian computer scientist, computer security researcher, and activist has died at age 43.

What was Peter Eckersley’s cause of death? Eckersley was diagnosed with cancer on 31 August, but died of complications during pre-operative preparations to treat the disease.

Eckersley’s death was announced by one of his former colleagues, Seth Schoen;

I’m devastated to report that Peter Eckersley […], one of the original founders of Let’s Encrypt, died earlier this evening [2022-09-02] at CPMC Davies Hospital in San Francisco.

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Peter was the leader of EFF’s contributions to Let’s Encrypt and ACME over the course of several years during which these technologies turned from a wild idea into an important part of Internet infrastructure. […] You can find a very abbreviated version of this history in the Let’s Encrypt paper, to which Peter and I both contributed.

From 2006 to 2018, Eckersley worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, including as chief computer scientist and head of AI policy.

In 2018 he left the EFF to become director of research at the Partnership on AI, a position he held until 2020. In 2021 he co-founded the AI Objectives Institute.

While at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eckersley started projects including Let’s Encrypt, Privacy Badger, Certbot, HTTPS Everywhere, SSL Observatory, and Panopticlick.

Eckersley was an outspoken advocate on topics including internet privacy, net neutrality, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.