Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney (born 1984) is an American

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and a former

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for

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Biography

Tunney started publishing software in 1998. She built software for other hackers and fiddled with

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. In 1999, at the age of 14, Tunney used the

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"Oogle". Around that time, Christopher Neuman registered the domain name oogle.com. In 2012,

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tried to obtain the domain in a

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case but did not meet all

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requirements for it. Neuman stated that he registered it because he: "intended to collaborate with Tunney". ''Note: Tunney was known as Justin at the time she developed Rampage Toolz.'' In July 2011, Tunney registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and occupywallst.org domain, which became the main online hub for the Occupy movement. In 2012, Tunney started working for Google as a software engineer. In March 2014, Tunney petitioned the US government on ''

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'' to hold a

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asking for support to retire all government employees with full pensions, transfer administrative authority to the technology industry, and appoint the

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of Google

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as CEO of America. Tunney has been inspired by the political views of

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. In 2016, Tunney discovered that

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projects on

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depended on an

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library with a security vulnerability. She started opening

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s with fixes and recruited 50 fellow Google employees to help during their 20% time. They used

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to enumerate vulnerable projects, of which 2,600 were found. She noted that the

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became a

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victim due to the vulnerability. Tunney wrote a

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and

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named ''Redbean 2'' that runs on multiple platforms as a single binary. ''

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'' called the project "a bunch of almost unbelievably clever tech tricks". On October 31, 2023 Tunney released the third edition of ''Cosmopolitan'', the

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implementation used to make ''Redbean'', which compiles a single binary that runs on multiple operating systems.

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