After the word leaked, "we started to celebrate somewhat, " enjoying good times at a local test pilot watering hole.

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In the next decade, Genzel hopes the planned next generation of 30 meter-class telescopes will enable black hole astronomers to test general relativity around the event horizon itself.

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Of course, exploiting a hole is also the only way to test that it has been fixed, so those outside the inner circle will be forced to rely on the software vendor's say-so when they get fixes and patches.

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Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that there was a security hole in Yelp -- one of the test partners in Facebook's "Instant Personalization" program -- that put Facebook user data at risk.

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Ma'a Nonu did the initial damage, creating the hole that saw Guildford stopped just short of a try on his Test debut.

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Zachary Harris, a Florida mathematician, thought he was being subjected to a classic Google employment test when he received an email from a Google recruiter containing a huge security hole.

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