(CNN Business) Growing up in Hong Kong, Jane Manchun Wong remembers her father taking away her internet access after she circumvented his parental controls on Internet Explorer.

"When my dad [installed] parental controls, I would find ways to break it to prove the point, 'Hey it is breakable,'" Wong told CNN Business.

Facebook FB Twitter TWTR She searches for new features hidden in the code of apps. Now, the 24-year-old spends her free time reverse engineering popular apps such as, Instagram,, Airbnb and Pinterest to discover unreleased features and security vulnerabilities.She searches for new featureshidden in the code of apps.

become a frequent source of information for tech journalists. Wong posts her findings to her Twitter account , which has over 16,000 followers. It'sbecome a frequent source of information for tech journalists.

"It's a puzzle for me to solve," said Wong. "I analyze the apps to find [features] and come up with ways to break it to make demoing the feature possible. It's like taking apart new mobile phones or cars to find interesting pieces of components."

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