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 charles miller northeast missouri state , university of notre dame
charlie miller -lrb- security researcher -rrb-

charles alfred miller is a computer security researcher with uber .
prior to his current employment , he spent five years working for the national security agency .
miller holds a bachelors in mathematics with a minor in philosophy from northeast missouri state -lrb- now truman state university -rrb- , and a ph.d. in mathematics from the university of notre dame .
he currently lives in wildwood , missouri .
miller has publicly demonstrated many security exploits of apple products .
in 2008 he won a $ 10,000 cash prize at the hacker conference pwn2own in vancouver canada for being the first to find a critical bug in the macbook air .
the following year , he won $ 5,000 for cracking safari .
in 2009 , he also demonstrated an sms processing vulnerability that allowed for complete compromise of the apple iphone and denial-of-service attacks on other phones .
in 2011 he found a security hole in the iphone and ipad , whereby an application can contact a remote computer to download new unapproved software that can execute any command that could steal personal data or otherwise using ios applications functions for malicious purposes .
as a proof of concept , miller created an application called `` instastock '' that was approved by apple 's app store .
he then informed apple about the security hole , who then promptly expelled him from the app store .
miller participated in research on discovering security vulnerabilities in nfc -lrb- near field communication -rrb- .
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