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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
Theuns
Interestingly, recent events appear to demonstrate the inverse: find a bug, tell the company, get slapped with a civil or criminal lawsuit.

After all, we couldn't have people going telling others about the bugs in systems, now can we?

[In other words, before this is feasible, a culture change ...

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