Top Chinese hacking team reveals members' identities

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By Liu Jiayi
View from China
ZDNet News
April 17, 2014

The Keen, a top hacking team which took down Windows 8.1. Adobe Flash in 
just 15 seconds and Apple’s Safari Mac OS X Mavericks system in only 20 
seconds during a Pwn2Own Vancouver event in March, has divulged the 
identity of its members, a Chinese newspaper reported on 13 April 2014.

"50 percent of us are the top scoring students in the national college 
entrance examination. 50 percent are majored in mathematics, and 50 
percent are from Microsoft," said Lv Yiping, key member of the Keen and 
co-founder and chief operating officer of the team's Shanghai-based parent 
company.

The team's primary attacker Chen Liang, who holds an undergraduate degree 
from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a graduate degree from Fudan 
University, said he had to lock himself up in a rented room for two months 
to keep away from all kinds of distractions and solely focused on the 
hundreds of millions of lines of code for an operating system.

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