Emerging Talent: Winternship 2020 Highlights

Summary: Trail of Bits' 2020 Winternship placed 10-15 students with mentors over winter break on information security tooling projects, including an Anvill decompiler JSON specification tool, DeepState fuzzing bug fixes, a Manticore cloud provisioner called mcorepv, Go AST/SSA scanners, and Slither upgradeability checks integrated into Crytic. The internships were paid, produced publications for participants, and in at least one case led to a job with the firm.
Bottom line: The projects target the tooling layer security teams depend on - fuzzing harnesses, decompilers, and smart contract CI checks - and one intern's mishegos binary output work was merged on the final day and became the default format, showing how short, focused contributions can land in production security tooling.

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