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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 2003-11-11
agent1
While this is a great idea, the problem would be companies stating they were already aware of that bug to avoid paying out money. They would then make a fix for it now that they really were aware of it thanks to the grey hat, and nobody would ever receive any compensation. If a contract could be mad...

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