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mixtureoftakes | 1 year ago

fuzzing lore: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1799457232607985698

great read if you wanna waste 11 minutes

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SloopJon|1 year ago

Google turns up a CNET article from 2007 (probably because eEye was "pumping press releases left and right"):[1]

> Researchers at eEye used a standard process of code auditing in discovering the vulnerabilities, [eEye CEO Ross] Brown added. He noted that Microsoft either did not do a 'good job' with its code auditing, or it may not have had enough people working on such a task.

I don't really get this culture of racing to find a bug in another company's product, then strutting about finding one (in Microsoft Publisher of all things) and throwing shade. I guess we should all be so lucky to have a company whose "standard process" is to pull a week of all nighters testing our product.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/flaw-found-in-office-2007/

johnisgood|1 year ago

The style of writing certainly added a lot to it.

Edit: I just checked the author, I might actually know him from IRC. The "Mantis" and "infosec" checks out.

chrisweekly|1 year ago

Fantastic read. Funny, relatable, all the technical details, and so much heart. Thank you for sharing it!