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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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Old idea ... 2003-11-19
Garry
Don Knuth already had that idea many years ago, making his typesetting system TeX one piece of stable software ... Don doubled the reward for found bugs every year ... not sure if anybody ever cashed the hand-signed DEK-cheques ... ;)...

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