Google Fixes 10 Bugs In Chrome, Pays $4000 Bounty 114
Trailrunner7 writes "It seems Google's bug bounty program is paying some nice dividends, for both sides. Less than two weeks after releasing version 6.0 of its Chrome browser, Google has pushed out another Chrome release, which includes fixes for 10 security bugs, seven of which are rated either critical or high. Google Chrome 6.0.472.59 comes out just 12 days after the last Chrome release, which fixed 14 security bugs. As part of its bug bounty program, Google paid out $4,000 in rewards to researchers who disclosed security flaws in the browser. Most of the security flaws fixed in the new release are in the Windows version of Chrome, but the most serious bug is only in Chrome for Mac."
Re:Thankless job indeed... (Score:4, Informative)
Um, I think you are confused.
People whose job it is to find bugs in Google software are Google employees. Their pay is not, I would assume, simply "by the bug", and I suspect that their pay is quite good.
Google happens to also give out bounties -- which many competitors don't -- as a kind of "thank you" to people who voluntarily report security bugs to Google. I'm not sure why you think that the standard for whether this is something nice or an "insult" is whether the bounty for the average bug is greater or less than the price of one share of Google stock.
Re:why are the bounties so low? (Score:4, Informative)
Mozilla pays $3K for critical security bugs.
http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html
Not a dupe, but still old news. (Score:3, Informative)
Are we going to hear about this as if it's fresh news *every* time it happens?
Re:Print preview! One feature that I miss (Score:3, Informative)
With Mac OS X, you can print directly to a PDF file. And we don't need anything from Adobe to read those files either. From a user point of view, a PDF is no different than a PNG or a JPEG.
Re:Thankless job indeed... (Score:2, Informative)
What "lavish" benefits are you talking about? Lunches? Lunches pay for themselves because they all of a sudden take 25-30 minutes instead of an hour or more. At $100+ (sometimes way more than that) per hour it just makes sense for a company to pay for lunches. Buses to and from work? Umm. OK, I'll give you that (even though Microsoft also has buses). On-site gym that hardly anyone goes to? What else?
Plus the usual as far as medical, dental, stock options, etc. And probably a bunch of other stuff that I don't know about.
Google is actually pretty bare bones on the inside.
Compared to?