Google Paid $410,000 for Chrome Bugs

[Guest]

Google's bug bounty program, which pays monetary rewards for the discovery of vulnerabilities in Chome, has been a runaway success, according to the company.

Google Paid $410,000 for Chrome Bugs : Read more

 

[d-isdumb]

The salary for one good programmer and one person could not find all the bugs found by the numerous programmers/users who found them. I say Google did a smart move. The linux community does the same thing but no one gets paid.

 

[vaughn2k]

I found 2 roaches and 1 centipede... do I get paid for this? Just kidding..

 

[alhanelem]

Its an effective use of man power

 

[TheMaristBoy]

Google, you're doing it right

 

[JDFan]

Just makes you wonder if they continue the program -- How many of their programmers will start to intentionally slip bugs into the coding for their "Friends" to find for some extra income !!

 

[guru_urug]

In other news, greedy apple wont pay its actual production employees more than a few $ a day.

 

[AznCracker]

using chrome right now

 

[danwat1234]

Chrome is so nice in that it uses both cores of my CPU whereas firefox just uses 1 core to render all tabs.

 

[HenrikG]

You get what you pay for... a damn good browser. The best.

 

[zybch]

Thats a LOT of bugs.

 

[leakingpaint]

Google is cool!

 

[nebun]

google is evil and i still use it what can i say, it's free.....wait, not really

 

[Guest]

How much do I get paid for pointing out the spelling 'bug' in your subheadline?

 

[eddieroolz]

I think it also helps that people (for one reason or another) love Google overall. If Microsoft did the same, it wouldn't be as much of a success because of the same reason.

 

[tomaz99]

Google also disclosed that about half of all bugs found were located in software provided by companies that Google had acquired.

My skool'n days are over...but it sounds like half the bugs are therefore caused by 'regular' Google employees.

I wouldn't make the distinction.

 

[rosen380]

But if 95% of the code is written by their hires and only 5% comes from these 'third parties', then noting that the bugs were 50/50 may be pretty significant...

 

[Gigz6413]

Whereas Apple would probably be like.... "Pay us, and we'll remove the bugs."

 

[rosen380]

Ummm, isn't it up to Foxconn to offer a fair wage and for their employees to accept or decline it? Apple contracts them to build a product, but doesn't run their organization.

Everything I've read seems to indicate that those workers make a pretty good living given the costs of living in those areas