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Yoni Heisler
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While many Silicon Valley tech companies famously employ 'bug bounty' programs whereby individuals or third-party groups can receive substantial monetary rewards for finding critical software bugs, Apple is curiously the odd man out. Whether it's Google handing out $12,000 to a former employee who managed to purchase the Google.com domain name or Facebook paying $15,000 to a security researcher who happened upon a way to unlock any user's account, paying cold hard cash to learn about previously undetected security vulnerabilities is not only commonplace, but also makes a lot of sense. (more…)
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