Joanna Rutkowska hacked the Windows Vista kernel, administered a Blue Pill to an operating system. The 26-year-old Polish researcher only recently took her first driving lesson. She says she’s surprised that more women haven’t cracked the security field. She worries that security technology and research is too prevention-oriented and doesn’t emphasize detection enough. “The scary part is that once an attacker [gets] into the system, we can’t reliably read, neither using software-based nor hardware-based methods,” she says.”]
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