127: Maddie

Maddie Stone is a security researcher for Google’s Project Zero. In this episode we hear what it’s like battling zero day vulnerabilities.

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Sources

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/pdfs/technical%20papers/yu-vb2013.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Tqi7fuOSU

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3n9b/sometimes-a-typo-means-you-need-to-blow-up-your-spacecraft

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