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How One Teenager Took out a Secure Pentagon File Sharing Site

In October 2018, Jack Cable, then a freshman at Stanford University, and winner of the previous year's "Hack the Air Force" competition by finding 30 vulnerabilities in Air Force web sites, discovered a "critical" vulnerability in the Army's file-sharing system, used to send files too large for email.

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