Krysta Torres

Krysta Kurt Torres, a brilliant hacker, musician, and artist, passed away just after midnight on Tuesday the 19th of September 2023 in her own home while peacefully sleeping. She was 36. She had been optimistically dealing with cancer since an initial diagnosis in mid 2020. She made it a point to make the most of however much life she had left; a lesson she tried to share with everyone she spoke with.

Most knew her as Kurt, aka KRT_, Kurt Underscore, Zunesuka, and krt_c0c41n3. Kurt was well known and loved in the hacker community, most notably nyc2600. She was a musician with varied styles from drumming in punk/rock bands as a teenager to making electronic music ranging from synthesizers to gameboys. She was also a visual artist and photographer and even had her photography exhibited in August of 2021 in Barcelona, Spain for The Art of Photography exhibition. Regardless of her medium of art, she was always actively unpretentious; more focused on authenticity than the culture that surrounded it.

She was always creative with a sharp wit, had endless energy, and was always up for any kind of adventure. When hearing some of her adventures, many people thought that they were unreal, only to later realize that if anything she was downplaying them. Anyone that knew her knew that she radiated positivity and that she had a knack for bringing people together and keeping them connected.

She had a varied career with diverse and interesting jobs between working for the United Nations, doing malware remediation for a large hosting provider, to a career in cybersecurity for Memorial Sloan Kettering.

She will be greatly missed. Even though we can no longer create new memories, we will always hold dear the ones that we've made with her in perpetuity.

A link to the playlist used for her services can be found here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6i11m1seFFlfp3nD19O9ah?si=f2b9efb3dc664a52&nd=1

A couple of her music profiles can be found here:

https://kurtunderscore.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/kurtnextdoor