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He's a prolific security researcher. Evercookie got him the fame and since then he's been researching all sorts of security vulnerabilities even on things like
by devy 10y ago
He's a prolific security researcher. Evercookie got him the fame and since then he's been researching all sorts of security vulnerabilities even on things like combination locks [1], I enjoy his video tutorials a lot.
[1] http://samy.pl/combobreaker/ http://samy.pl/combobreaker/
- rudolf0 10y agoI'd argue the Myspace worm [1] was what really got him the fame. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
- FilterSweep 10y agoThanks, I had no idea he was also behind that one! That's quite a severe sentencing for a "Guestbook Signing" XSS exploit. I wonder if the sentence was reduced.
- rudolf0 10y agoYeah, not sure why he was punished so harshly for something that probably didn't inconvenience users too much and was clearly intended as a prank. I do see that Myspace might've spent $20,000 or more to remediate th situation but it seems harsh to make him pay all that.