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Google Says No More Cash For Trash Web Bugs

Trailrunner7 writes "It's bound to happen: you create a cool, forward looking incentive program designed to tap the 'wisdom of the crowd' and help make your products better, only to find out that, in fact, the 'crowd' isn't all that wise — and now wants you to pay cold, hard cash for their tepid ideas. That's the experience that Google appears to have had since announcing that it would extend its bounty program for bugs from its Chromium platform to the various Web applications that the company owns. In an updated blog post this week, the company said it has already committed to some $20,000 in bounties, but also provided some 'clarification' to the terms of the reward program, saying that — in essence — not all bugs are equal and that researchers dumping low priority vulnerabilities shouldn't expect to get much in return. 'The review committee has been somewhat generous this first week,' wrote Google's Security Team in a blog post. 'We've granted a number of awards for bugs of low severity, or that wouldn't normally fall under the conditions we originally described.'"

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  1. Stop sucking fifty dicks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    See subject.
    This one's free.

    Just kidding, you're alright, google.

  2. Re:"Web bugs"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    additionally, a "bug catcher" is slang for a hiv-negative faggot that gets fucked up the ass by an hiv-positive faggot.

  3. Maybe they will sell the bugs to the Russian Mafia by RocketRabbit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google is pulling another dick move here. Their bounty for bugs program provided an incentive for people to report the bugs to Google. Even though a bug may be "low priority" to Google, a researcher probably spent some pretty decent time finding and verifying the bug.

    Maybe other parties will start offering bounties for Google bugs. Perhaps their intentions will be noble, and perhaps they are goin' fishin'...

  4. Are you sure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I disagree with you, cum-guzzle. But I do think that you're on to something...

  5. Re:"Web bugs"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hey buddy: fuck you. go spew your hatred somewhere else. your attempt at humor fails on multiple counts.

  6. Re:"Web bugs"? by MichaelKristopeit170 · · Score: 0, Troll
    i don't think "web application bug" or "web app bug" are any different than "web bug"...

    calling a bug a feature is one thing, but calling a feature a bug is ignorantly masochistic.

  7. Re:"Web bugs"? by MichaelKristopeit170 · · Score: 0, Troll
    you are using "bug" as a verb. i am using "bug" as a noun.

    "tracking pixel" is a term that already has a commonly understood meaning (and has for OVER A DECADE)

    professionals don't propagate the potential for confusion.

  8. Re:"Web bugs"? by MichaelKristopeit170 · · Score: -1, Troll
    considering we are talking about the noun form of the word "bug" and you're claiming that you are CERTAINLY using "bug" as a verb............ you're an idiot.

    considering 123,462,235 years is still OVER A DECADE you're still not understanding why you're a moron... YOU ARE AMBIGUOUS.

    ambiguity is the tool of the unsure.

    you're completely pathetic.

  9. Re:"Web bugs"? by MichaelKristopeit170 · · Score: -1, Troll
    anonymity is a tool only of the coward.

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

    are you attempting insult, feeb?

    you're completely pathetic.

  10. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit168 · · Score: 0, Troll
    i'm not naming you pathetic... you're feeling as such is very telling.

    is assigning responsibly to your broadcasted ideas and ideals something you are not able to do? or are you just not willing? why do you cower? cowering is a tool of the feebly unsure. you are less than completely pathetic.

    you are NOTHING

  11. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit172 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Next up, from the MichaelKristopeit choir, their over played and painfully repetitive “You Are Pathetic”.

  12. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit168 · · Score: 0, Troll
    "MichaelKristopeit172" is operated by a pathetic individual attempting to steal my identity.

    to the individual responsible: present yourself to me; admit what you've done, then i will bring upon you the ultimate punishment for you digression.

  13. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit172 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I see in the last few days you've changed 'ultimately' to 'ultimate' and 'transgressions' to 'digression'. What's next, 'untimely' and 'digestion'?

    The MichaelKristopeit choir sings the song of pathetic.

  14. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit168 · · Score: 0, Troll
    "MichaelKristopeit172" is operated by a pathetic individual attempting to steal my identity.

    to the individual responsible: present yourself to me; admit what you've done, then i will bring upon you the ultimate punishment for your transgressions.

  15. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit172 · · Score: -1, Troll

    "MichaelKristopeit168" is operated by a pathetic individual. Period.

    Present yourself to me and I will pitty you.

  16. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit164 · · Score: 0, Troll
    "pitty"? you're an idiot. PITY is ALL you would be capable of. i'm assuming you learned it from your mother while she expressed it through most of your childhood.

    you are a disgrace.

    "MichaelKristopeit172" is operated by a pathetic individual attempting to steal my identity.

    to the individual responsible: present yourself to me; admit what you've done and i will bring upon you the ultimate punishment for your transgressions.

  17. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit172 · · Score: -1, Troll

    That is not my first spelling error, nor is it the first clue I have left you to who I am. You are pathetic.

  18. Re:Coming from an 8 digit "registered 'luser'" ID? by MichaelKristopeit202 · · Score: 0, Troll
    want is irrelevant in the face of action. you're an idiot.

    ur mum's face fail at understanding what a parody is.

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

    refresh your bookmark again, monkey.

    cower some more, feeb.

    you're completely pathetic.