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Benjamin Rosen, the Wall Street analyst turned venture investor who helped bring Apple to Morgan Stanley for its IPO and later financed Compaq and Lotus, has died at age 93. He was widely credited with convincing skeptical investors and institutions that personal computers were a serious business, not a passing fad.
A historical piece revisits how Lotus Notes, launched in 1989, offered encryption, rich formatting, read receipts, and app-building tools years before equivalent standards like MIME or PGP existed for email. It traces the software's conceptual origins back to a 1973 University of Illinois project called PLATO Notes, built by a teenage programmer, David Woolley, to replace a chaotic open text file used for campus communication.
The FBI dismantled infrastructure belonging to a 'quartermaster' service that supplied reconnaissance, proxy relays, and routing tools to Chinese state-linked hackers. Lumen Technologies' Black Lotus Labs had spent a year tracking the system, identifying four components—QScan, Fast Labyrinth, QTRouter, and QTProxy—that worked together to profile targets and hide malicious traffic.