Breaking things to keep them safe with Philippe Laulheret
Summary: Cisco Talos published a Humans of Talos interview in which Senior Vulnerability Researcher Philippe Laulheret describes his path from French engineering school through four years of development work in a U.S. design studio to vulnerability research, where he chooses his own targets and finds flaws in software, hardware, and physical systems so other teams can write detection rules. He cites a green onion used to bypass a biometric fingerprint reader and says years of playing Capture The Flag helped him move from regular development into research.
Why it matters: Laulheret's onion-versus-fingerprint-reader result is the point: a biometric control fell to a vegetable, and his team's findings only protect customers once someone writes the detection rule.
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