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Quotation of the Day: Spotting a Bug That May Have Been Meant to Cripple the Internet

Apr 04, 2024

"I find it very odd. I'm a fairly private person who just sits in front of the computer and hacks on code."

ANDRES FREUND , a 38-year-old software engineer, on becoming an internet folk hero after inadvertently finding a backdoor hidden in a piece of software that was a possible prelude to a major cyberattack.


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