<i>"A young female hacker and her helpless company seems like a perfect pick for that goal. I don’t try to hide, I travel a lot, and am a friendly communicative person. And most importantly, I don’t have any big money, power or connections behind me to shrug off the blame. So really, it could be anyone.”</i><p>Young, female and a hacker would be excellent cover for a foreign power to nudge to do their patriotic duty. Deniability even better.<p><i>“We have not only searched for bugs but exploited them, but only with the customer’s sanction,”</i><p>Taken out of context, but imagine if the customer is a nation state?<p><i>"Shevchenko specialises in finding so-called “zero-days”"</i><p>In Intel. circles, a deniable asset is called a ^Kite^.