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Tim Mullen, 2004-05-17

The arrest of Sasser's author proves bounties work to catch cyber vandals. Now, if the security industry would just stop egging them on ...

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Success, or Illusion? 2004-05-17
Matthew Murphy
While the article makes an excellent point that solving vulnerabilities, etc., was never really the intention of Microsoft's virus writer bounty program, that was never really the claim.

I, like others in this field, believed that Microsoft would use the relatively inexpensive bounty programs as ...

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