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Vulnerability researcher at Google. This is a personal stream, opinions expressed are mine.

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    Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 16 May 2016
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    Kernel memory corruption in Symantec/Norton antivirus, CVE-2016-2208 (more patches soon). https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=820 …pic.twitter.com/F22xDIelSU

    5:20 PM - 16 May 2016
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      2. Ryan Peck‏ @RyPeck 16 May 2016
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        did you definitely crash the Symantec's mail server when submitting to them?

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      3. Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 16 May 2016
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        it happens all the time, most vendors aggressively deploy their own products and aren't used to handling bugs like this.

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      2. Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 16 May 2016
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        dunno what you mean, I give a lot of fucks, that's why we work on this stuff.

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      3. API ERROR‏ @SwiftOnSecurity 16 May 2016
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        removed, it may not be a term that translates well

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      2. Scott Michaud‏ @scottmichaud 16 May 2016
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        @SwiftOnSecurity @DrPizza It's funny how few realize that AV software can be vulnerable. Native code pointed at untrusted data...

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      3. jon camfield‏ @joncamfield 16 May 2016
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        Replying to @scottmichaud @taviso and

        http://www.slideshare.net/JoxeanKoret/breaking-av-software-33153490 … is a good reminder of this.

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      1. dean jerkovich‏ @tecnik 16 May 2016
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        the fact that the bug submission likely took out their own mail AV is more than a little hilarious

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      1. Patrick Gray‏ @riskybusiness 16 May 2016
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        @tavisopic.twitter.com/eBPz5m8L1p

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      1. DataShade‏ @datashade 17 May 2016
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        @tavisopic.twitter.com/javMlGhgke

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      2. Earthshine  👨‍🚀 🏁 🚐 🚗 🏍️ 🏍️ 🏍️ 🏍️‏ @CaptainSaicin 17 May 2016
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        @EmberFoxie I like this meme. It has so many potential uses...

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      3. Earthshine  👨‍🚀 🏁 🚐 🚗 🏍️ 🏍️ 🏍️ 🏍️‏ @CaptainSaicin 17 May 2016
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        Exhibit A:pic.twitter.com/oQXVI53ahU

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