Hacking with Otto
| Start time: | 2024-11-05 w45 Tue 09:00 (in 0 minutes) |
| Location: | pa4009, 4th floor, Haaga-Helia Pasila, Ratapihantie 13, Helsinki |
| Price: | 0.00 EUR (Free) |
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Otto can hack cryptocurrencies. Based on his one-man Ltd public records, it seems to pay pretty well. For mere mortals, bug bounties are a T-Shirt (wrong size). But not for Otto - he has won bug bounties of considerable monetary value. Before Otto came to Finland, he worked years for Facebook security.
In his last visit, Otto explained how he managed to hack a cryptocurrency. When reading code (to break it), you should look at what it says, not just what coder meant. What did they assume?
Otto also gave advice on choosing a bug bounty, picking low competition / high yield areas of software to analyze, finding the bug in code and negotiating when necessary ("it's a dupe"). The presentation got great student feedback (5.0/5). It made the challenging subject easy to understand and follow.
Duplicating money has been Otto's latest intrest. I don't yet know the exact subject for his presentation.
Otto likes to make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. Following the presentation requires knowledge of programming, such as object, constructors, destructors, arrays, compile time vs runtime errors.
In English.