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Stephane Chazelas: the man who found the web's 'most dangerous' internet security bug

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

Stephane Chazelas: the man who found the web's 'most dangerous' internet security bug

It was a bug that lurked in software found on hundreds of millions of devices for 21 years, leaving them vulnerable to hackers, who may have known of its existence.

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