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Yeah, that was my take as well. OP did some free work for a megacorp and made the web a little bit worse, because "security, I guess" ? Good job.
by antisthenes 1y ago
Yeah, that was my take as well. OP did some free work for a megacorp and made the web a little bit worse, because "security, I guess" ?
Good job.
- deryilz 1y agoSometimes you get $0, sometimes you get more. I would like to mention this stuff on my college applications, and even if I tried to gatekeep it, it'd eventually be patched. Not sure what your argument is here.
- sebmellen 1y agoIncredibly impressive to do this sort of work before applying to college!
- busymom0 1y agoGoogle would have found this bug if any extensions tried to rely on it and patched it instantly anyway.
- mertd 1y agoThe author claims to be 8 years old in 2015. So that makes them still a teenager. It is pretty cool IMO.
- 9dev 1y agoAre you guys honestly arguing like the zero day industry would, for a vector that couldn’t be used by any ad blocking extension since Google has them under an electron microscope 24/7? To pick on a very young, enthusiastic programmer? What the hell??