Google to pay users to report Chrome bugs
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Google has announced that it will start paying amateur bug-hunters to have a sniff around its Chrome web browser to see if they can break it. The company said it will pony up a cash reward for bugs reported through the Chromium Bug Tracker. It will pay a geek-friendly $1,337 (£840) to researchers who find a "particularly severe or particularly clever" super bug. The company announced on its Chromium project blog, that in order to weed out vulnerabilities from...
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