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Sorry to digress a little, but I'm sensitive on age issues :) Pinkie Pie won his first $50k award by creating a 0-day sandbox escape on Chrome, by chaining 10
by giovannibajo1 13y ago
Sorry to digress a little, but I'm sensitive on age issues :)
Pinkie Pie won his first $50k award by creating a 0-day sandbox escape on Chrome, by chaining 10 different vulnerabilities. He was 19 (now almost 21). Two years before, at 17, he released jailbreakme.com, all by himself, which was a 0-day able to jailbreak all iOS models shipped to date by just visiting a website.
Age means nothing by itself, but the point is correct. The problem is that we don't know how much we can trust bitcoin site owners, as most of them are relatively new with no history to inspect, closed source, and sometimes even run by anonymous users whose experience we can't inspect.
- jessedhillon 13y agoAnecdotes don't negate stereotypes, which are themselves generalizations across numerous anecdotes. And stereotyping is not by itself an invalid source of information, just less reliable than, say, a study. Everyone knows one person who negates a stereotype -- any stereotype. The existence of that person doesn't reduce the usefulness of that stereotype.
- gnaritas 13y agoOutliers exist, this doesn't make them likely, age does matter far far more often than not. Generalizations have value, but they're not expected to always be true.
- bigiain 13y agoSure, there are 18 year olds with impressive technical chops. But do you know _anybody_ who would deposit money in a bank run exclusively by an 18 year old? Coding skills can be created and honed by highschoolers - business, legal, and commercial experience - very much less so.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoSorry, didn't mean to put down the skills of young people! I'm 28 and I work on lots of security related systems, and although I understand most all of it, I wouldn't attempt to build a Bitcoin exchange without someone with years and years of hardened workplace experience. That's all I meant ;)