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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs
Mark Rasch, 2003-11-10

Instead of paying hard cash to punish computer criminals, vendors should reward grey hat hackers for responsibly finding and reporting the security holes that make cyber attacks possible.

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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-10
researcher
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-11
Anonymous (1 replies)
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-13
Mark Rasch
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-11
Psuedo-Anonymous Coward (1 replies)
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-19
Anonymous
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-11
Anonymous (1 replies)
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-13
Anonymous
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-11
agent1
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-11
Ragnarok
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-11
Theuns
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-11
frustrated security dweeb
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-12
Bob Weiss - Passsword Crackers, Inc.
Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-12
Lockdown
The problem with this is that these holes are already known. You can pay the "Grey-Hats" all of the money you want. If the people don't patch their systems the worms and virii will still be out there wreaking havoc.

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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-13
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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-13
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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-13
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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-14
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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-14
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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-15
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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-18
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Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs 2003-11-18
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Old idea ... 2003-11-19
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