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He's 12 years old. He found a stack overflow. In document.write. In Firefox. In 2010. Clearly something has gone wrong with spacetime.
One can only hope that the next generation will find a way to blow whistles into cell phones to get free calls.
I'm sorry, but I can't help but see this and think of all the kids around this age who are prevented from earning money by child labor laws, and the idea that this kid is a "Slave" because he's "too young to make decisions for himself. It may sound like this is a ridiculous thing to say, but just yesterday someone was making this claim in another forum. I was busy writing a game at that age with the intent to sell it…
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This should go in your next hiring post. "Who we're looking for: Somebody with the chops to dig into code that has passed professional inspection and do horrible, horrible things to it. Someone who can find a stack overflow in document.write. Someone like you , because if you can program we will teach you these and other dark arts. The last stack overflow in Firefox was found by a 12 year old. Are you going to let yo…
Assuming it is reliably exploitable and packaged with the exploit, $3,000 is substantially less than what that vulnerability is worth. As with everything, it depends on how aggressively you sell it, and whether you believe in an immortal soul. I can't tell you exactly how much though because I'm busy tracking down his email address so we can be his 8th grade internship.
I remember when I was a teenager making more than my parents (dot-com boom) and money I was making was just piling up. I had virtually no goals that would require money back then... of course now as I get older, it's exactly the opposite, plenty of goals, no money :)
My biggest child tech achievement was finding the word C--T in a data file for a text adventure when I was 10 (I was trying to cheat at the game). I casually asked my parents what it meant and my parents wrote in and complained and we got a free copy of the then-new Wing Commander by way of apology (Happily, I didn't learn what C--T meant till I was about 14..)
I'm sorry, but I can't help but see this and think of all the kids around this age who are prevented from earning money by child labor laws, and the idea that this kid is a "Slave" because he's "too young to make decisions for himself. It may sound like this is a ridiculous thing to say, but just yesterday someone was making this claim in another forum. I was busy writing a game at that age with the intent to sell it…
Did I miss the part of the article where they took his $3,000 check away?
I'm sorry, but I can't help but see this and think of all the kids around this age who are prevented from earning money by child labor laws, and the idea that this kid is a "Slave" because he's "too young to make decisions for himself. It may sound like this is a ridiculous thing to say, but just yesterday someone was making this claim in another forum. I was busy writing a game at that age with the intent to sell it…
Did I miss the part of the article where they took his $3,000 check away?
From the story: "[...], he plans yo buy Christmas gifts for his family."