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Growing up in Hong Kong, Jane Manchun Wong remembers her father taking away her internet access after she circumvented his parental controls on Internet Explorer.
"When my dad [installed] parental controls, I would find ways to break it to prove the point, 'Hey it is breakable,'" Wong told CNN Business.Now, the 24-year-old spends her free time reverse engineering popular apps such as Facebook , Instagram, Twitter , Airbnb and Pinterest to discover unreleased features and security vulnerabilities. She searches for new features hidden in the code of apps. Wong posts her findings to her Twitter account, which has over 16,000 followers.
— Jane Manchun Wong March 15, 2019 Wong, who taught herself software and programming skills from local library books, said her motivation is a mix of curiosity, testing her knowledge and wanting to get her hands on new features. Wong sometimes gives the companies feedback."This is purely my interest," she said."I kind of avoid turning this into a profession because sometimes it feels different when you do something you like as a career.
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