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Denial of Service bounty hunters

Posted by Hemos on from the boot-to-the-neck dept.

lightPhoenix writes "Get this, John Carmack, god of id & quake 3 arena, is offering a bounty for exposure of game server exploits. Check it out. " It's down the page a bit-but it's there. That's a cool idea.

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  1. Excellent! by Accipiter · · Score: 5
    This is a splendid idea.

    A) Something positive for hackers to get a hold of, and actually get attention for their exploits, and even get them fixed!

    B) Positive feedback from the developer of the software, and appriciation.

    C) A final product that would be far superior in security from DoS then if it had been released without this testing.

    Definitely makes everyone happy.

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