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The end of this year's editions of the Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests has been marked by another Chrome hack, executed by a teenage security researcher that goes by the alias "PinkiePie", and the successful "pwnage" of Mozilla's Firefox browser by researchers Willem Pinckaers and Vincenzo Iozzo.
The 17-year-old PinkiePie - who wanted to keep his face and real name secret because his current employer hasn't sanctioned his participation in the contest - has, by his own admission, been lucky to discover a zero-day vulnerability that allowed him to break out of Chrome's sandbox early into his research for the contest.
