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yes - its been done several times.

sam_bwuton USENIX WOOT 2015 Call for Papers

What about undergraduates?

sam_bwuton International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out

Reporting for worship: http://pocorgtfo.samdb.xyz/

sam_bwuton Ask HN: Final year project in CS

Have you tried talking directly to researches with similar interests to you about potential ideas? They'll often have stuff in the back of their minds that they wouldn't want to put out as a general proposal to undergrads...

sam_bwuton Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists

Why Kali? Surely you means TAILS?

sam_bwuton Japanese companies seek international graduates

Same - I'm at a large employer, 4 month grad training- 2 months general tech, 1 month semi company specific + a couple of group projects.

sam_bwuton Kpatch: Dynamic Linux kernel patching

Wait, how handy will this be for adding backdoors once you have root?

sam_bwuton The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate

xipiter was homepage less for 4 years, they managed fine.

sam_bwuton Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers

In GBP its only ~40k a year...

sam_bwuton Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers

I believe he's still an undergrad, I don't know about google but here an intern can be anything from a pre university student to someone finishing a phd.

sam_bwuton Linus Torvalds: “I'm happily hacking on a new save format using ‘libgit2’”

At work we have a git backed document store that just saves as json - versioning makes keeping track of audit points nice and easy.

sam_bwuton K, by Arthur Whitney (2005)

We use a lot Q (K's kind of successor) and kdb+ at work pretty daunting at first but the performance is amazing.

sam_bwuton Ask HN: When is it too old to be an intern?

We had an intern last summer that used to have his own interns before he moved to software - people will definitely look.

sam_bwuton Pushed to the limit as a banking intern

I'm interning down the road from where he was - I live 10 minutes away and still have money to burn.

sam_bwuton Pushed to the limit as a banking intern

I've had other interns vary there description between doing loads and not doing anything - people aren't going to micro manage you (or manage you at all half the time...).

sam_bwuton Pushed to the limit as a banking intern

It was probably the same salary for the internship minus bonus's - the IBD interns here are all on 45k + 1k signing, grad is normally about 5k signing and a bonus guaranteed by HR at at least a set level.