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DrewHintz

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About DrewHintz

I do info security at OpenAI. http://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhintz

my email address is drew@overt.org

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    Comment #42920357

    I’ve had luck with a workflow similar to: git clone a repo Open goose with that directory Instruct it to discover what the repo does Ask it to make changes to the code, being detai…

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    Comment #42920318

    I tell it to discover that itself by asking leading questions: “What does this repo do?” “How do you run its unit tests?” “What does file foo do?”

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    Comment #42891361

    I'm guessing an "internal tools scaffold" is something like Goose: https://github.com/block/goose Instead of just generating a patch (copilot style), it generates the patch, applie…

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    Comment #29071230

    Square | AppSec, vulnerability discovery, pen testing | Remote in North America We're hiring people to find vulnerabilities in Square products and services! The team is brand-new w…

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    Comment #14621521

    "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change." Original post: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in... D…

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    Comment #12854864

    https://security.googleblog.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-...

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    Comment #11142148

    Here's the tweet: "The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI's request." https://twitter.com/countywire/status/7008878234826301…

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    Comment #10922684

    Sure thing, I'm happy to help. Our code is at https://github.com/google/password-alert and feel free to email me any questions at drew@overt.org However we haven't published a good…

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    Comment #10922656

    > isTrusted can apparently be spoofed isTrusted cannot be spoofed in this situation, which is its intended use in Chrome. A Chrome extension in the isolated world is receiving even…

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    Comment #10920268

    > Yes, we're pushing the notification to a new tab (which can't be blocked or interfered with) We went through a similar iteration with Password Alert. If you're setting focus on t…

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    Comment #10920160

    This can be protected against by the extension looking at keyboardEvents and verifying the isTrusted attribute. Here are details about how we do this in Password Alert: https://git…

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    Comment #10918013

    > LastPass also detects you enter your master password on an incorrect domain and notifies you immediately of your mistake Interesting! How does it do this?

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    Comment #10121265

    I agree that it's not yet ready for general use, but what hardening do you expect to happen in the coming months? I'm one of the original end-to-end authors, but haven't worked on …

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    Comment #9463100

    Thanks, that's a fair point. However I've been surprised to see that in well-executed attacks, even the best of us can at least occasionally fall for password phishing.

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    Comment #9458023

    A while ago this was sort of leaked on HN, but someone called it "really unlikely": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566022 Now we…

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    Comment #8356668

    This diff appears to contain the patch: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/185571456/apt_0.7.25.3ubuntu9... For example, you can see the change in cdrom: handling code as mentioned in …

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    Comment #8356625

    It's not actually related to Project Zero. There are quite a few people here at Google, both on Project Zero and on other projects and teams, that routinely find vulnerabilities. H…

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    Comment #8356596

    Just someone reading source code. Coincidentally, the same way Heartbleed was found.

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    Comment #8356576

    > Is there any evidence of this having been used in the wild anywhere? No.

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