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Mega Vulnerability Reward Program Starts Payouts: 7 Bugs Fixed In First Week

Posted by timothy on from the paid-in-bitcoins-of-course dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you're a hacker or a security researcher, this is a reminder that you don't have to take on Google's or Mozilla's software to get paid for finding a bug. In its first week, the Mega vulnerability reward program has already confirmed and fixed seven bugs, showing that Dotcom really does put his money where his mouth is. Although Mega hasn't shared how much money it paid out in the first week, how many bug submissions were made, or even who found which bugs, the company did briefly detail the discovered security holes. It also confirmed that the program is here to stay and urged those participating to find more severe bugs."

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  1. New way to get software made cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Pay unskilled programmers little money to quickly turn out software.
    2. Release software you know is completely buggy and insecure.
    3. Offer bounty for better programmers to find bugs at overall cheaper rate.

    1. Re:New way to get software made cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, who's going to want to sit on their ass in their own home working with no contract, no paperwork, no boss, no bullshit, finding bugs and getting paid for working whenever they feel like it...

    2. Re:New way to get software made cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      lol, never got yours, right?

  2. Re:Unfortunately the same "pay for bug fix" cultur by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kim Dotcom might pay well, but I'm sure he knows as well as anyone else that crime is where the money is

    Certainly right. There's probably even huge amounts of money to be made by suing USDOJ trolls for slander.