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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 2003-11-12
Anonymous
It's a great idea in theory, but I think in reality it will be too hard to implement. Most notably it would be almost impossible to figure out the rate at which people would be paid; And if company x screws you and pays you less than you deserve you have little legal recourse. Though thinking like t...

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