Best job ever? Aussie teen paid thousands to hack tech giants
Griffin Francis, a 19-year-old from Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales north coast, hasn't got a full time job but has earned thousands hacking into tech giants Google, Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, then tipping them off about flaws in their security systems.
"I think of what they haven't done and about finding means to bypass that," said Mr Francis, who is studying a diploma in information technology.
"Let's say a site has a vulnerability and the administrators patched against it. I could think of flaws with the way they patch against that and try to get around it." "[Or] security flaws that possibly compromise user data, stuff that shouldn't be there. Let's say your logged in to a website, the data is stored on their site and you tamper with the website to replicate them being logged in, stuff like that."
