Google Will Pay Up To $1 Million To The Google Chrome Hackers
The keyword here is “up to”.
As if the Pwn2Own contest was not enough, Google will be holding its own competition at the CanSecWest security conference.
Called Pwnium, contest attendees will be asked to exploit the Google Chrome web browser and in return, will be rewarded as follows:
$60,000 – “Full Chrome exploit”
$40,000 – “Partial Chrome exploit”
$20,000 – “Consolation reward, Flash / Windows / other”
So where does this $1 million reward come from? Well, Google will be giving away money not for the first two or three hackers, but for pretty much everyone, who manages to compromise their web browsers security.
As simple as that.
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What is the benefits to pay the Google Chrome Hackers?
I guess they value security :)
Haha, they aren’t paying for being hacked, they’re paying for hackers to become more interested ($) to discover how to hack Chrome and tell Google so they can fix the hypothetical security hole.
Problem is, the real crackers don’t give a damn about money, and they are the ones who exploit this stuff.