{"id":749,"date":"2009-03-23T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2009-03-23T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:52:17","slug":"interview-with-mac-hacker-charlie-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/interview-with-mac-hacker-charlie-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Mac Hacker Charlie Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Miller, the security researcher who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/hacker-contest-mac-hacked-in-10-seconds\/\">hacked a Mac in ten seconds<\/a> (using an exploit he had developed over a period of several months prior to the hacking contest), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=2941\">answered some questions<\/a> from ZDNet&#8217;s Ryan Naraine. Miller explained a bit about how he works, about this type of hacking contest, and whether he has told Apple about the bug he exploited to win the contest. One comment to note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I never give up free bugs. I have a new campaign. It\u2019s called NO MORE FREE BUGS. Vulnerabilities have a market value so it makes no sense to work hard to find a bug, write an exploit and then give it away.\u00a0 Apple pays people to do the same job so we know there\u2019s value to this work. No more free bugs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He discusses the &#8220;value&#8221; of bugs &#8211; ie, how much they can be sold for (but doesn&#8217;t say to whom he sells them), and claims that Apple&#8217;s Safari is quite easy to hack. As for why Google&#8217;s Chrome browser wasn&#8217;t hacked, Miller said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I didn\u2019t think anyone would get go after Chrome, IE or Firefox.\u00a0 It\u2019s all economics. It\u2019s only hard or easy compared to what someone would pay.\u00a0 If Pwn2Own offered $1 million per bug for Chrome, there would be a line of people here looking to bankrupt them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Food for thought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Miller, the security researcher who recently hacked a Mac in ten seconds (using an exploit he had developed over a period of several months prior to the hacking contest), answered some questions from ZDNet&#8217;s Ryan Naraine. 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