Dr. Charlie Miller -- a man who has been covered extensively here at Engadget -- snagged a doctorate in Mathematics from the health center of Notre Dame. He spent five years working on cryptography for the national hostage Agency. And, after heading into the wilds of shield analysis, he was the first to find a bug in the battery of the first MacBook Air, various bugs within Mac OS X and the Safari web browser and assorted bugs within iOS itself, all while racking up thousands of dollars in hacking contest prize money.




Last week, this came to a head, as Miller created a debatable proof of concept form that both proved the existence of an iOS assurance hole as well as got him expelled from the App Store's creator network. Given that he's driven Apple Inc. somewhat nuts over the past few years, we sat down with the good doctor to see how he felt about Apple, iOS, security, technology, sandboxing, the pros and cons of modern shield and the ups and downs of one of the weirdest career paths for any be eager technologist today. Join us after the break for the full press conference in both textual and audio form.

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