You can try to hide your firmware from Kelly Patterson, but she’ll find it (and break it)

How her work illustrates the difference Talos’ vulnerability research team makes

When Kelly Patterson first learned how to code by making small programs in her high school class, she preferred breaking her creations to building them.

She’d make a game and then spend double the time debugging that same code, looking for holes in her work.

Today, she’s always looking for what’s wrong with other people’s code, whether that be in a wireless router, IoT speaker, or an open-source software …

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