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Hacker Millionaire Frans Rosén Interview

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Interview of Hacker Millionaire Frans Rosén. He is a top ranked participant of bug bounty programs on HackerOne. Frans was featured as #2 on Hackread's list of 10 Famous Bug Bounty Hunters of All Time and the results of his security research has been covered in numerous international publications such as Observer, BBC, Ars Technica and SC Magazine.
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ah can you please introduce yourself yes my name is Franz Rosen I may invest in Sweden and work as a security adviser at the tech to fight and I do a lot of bug bounty hunting online okay how much time do you spend on hunting bugs so hunting embarks I spend around maybe it depends I do like three months and then three months off and three months on three months off so but during those three months that I actually do hunting I would say I'd probably do it like three or four hours at least today maybe take a few days off but it to me it's really important not to get like burned out so that's why I

tend to take some breaks and like try to move away from hacking and then going back okay what advice would you give to your fans and to the community members to keep up with all the new trends and techniques so keeping up with trends I mean the easiest I mean no Theseus maybe but the the best way to actually keep up is to read read everything read it all read on slides read if all the blogs read the tweets everything like you need to consume all the information that gets out there and you need to keep up-to-date with everything everywhere so to me I'm probably reading like majority of my time being awake when I'm actually hunting because you

need to keep up with everything it's it's a lot of work I think it's like Warren Buffett said it said it the same like you need to read everything and it makes sense in hockey as well like in to know and understand the most of the new things coming out to be on top of everything great what is the most interesting but you've ever found it's a hard question with the worst bodies I think one of those times where I felt I was actually getting scared on what I've actually started was when I reported a security ship roulette sink ribbit and the whole idea was that I showed that they had a weakness so I could issue

certificates for almost every of their customer and I got help from two really big companies to issue certificates for their in their domains and when I sent that to let's encrypt before they didn't really understand how bad it was but when I sent those certificates to them like the whole tone changed so that was that was pretty pretty scary like it was number one on Hacker News that they shut down because of the security incident and that they reported back to me like don't issue anymore certificates we understand the problem like everything was just like boiling and I was super scared but they were really happy that I told them and everything went well in

then threats a question which lot of us and I guess pretty much everybody who knows you would want to ask him how do you really feel to be a believer at such a young age I I it's hard question I don't I don't live like a millionaire I am I try to stay like a lot of my a lot of the bounties are made I put into investments and I'm invested into other companies to make them grow so I don't know if I'm technically a millionaire actually because like I'm I'm making sure that a lot of people can can work and go to a job and that we can build stuff too so I'm more focused on that than to like

I have a little super small little car and Sweden so like it fits almost for people my kids i I really don't don't exaggerate in my in my life I would say and I focus more on like getting money where it needs to be right now and to make something grow and that's my focus okay last question how was your experience at Miss aiexander but it was really cool being here coming from it about yesterday it was amazing we we have just had such a awesome introduction to the community here and the crew has been taking care of us like royalties almost so it's been amazing it was really fun doing the talk earlier today and I'm just so happy I was a part

of this event there so thank you a lot besides supernova it's a pleasure to host you as well fans the cameras all yours any closing notes closing notes I mean I can follow my my talk first all the things you try to look for what you're getting from all your all the date that you're getting in your face when you're browsing around a program try to understand why it's there and what it does there and if you can turn it into something bad okay Thank You soldier attacks ransom okay thank you