She hacked the Windows Vista kernel, she administered a Blue Pill to an operating system, and she pioneered rootkit detection research, but Joanna Rutkowska doesn't know how to drive a car.
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"It's very difficult to pass the driving exam in Poland, and it's not unusual for people to try three or five times in a row," she says.
It's hard to imagine Warsaw-based Rutkowska -- who has quietly taken the male-dominated research community by storm with her groundbreaking research in Vista hacking and in creating and detecting stealth malware in operating systems -- failing at much of anything. The confident yet self-effacing researcher shrugs off the discovery of that now famous crack in the Vista fortress as just part of her research.
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Joanna, license or not, is still bad ass in my book....
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