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Mozilla pays tween $3000 for discovering Firefox flaw

article published on 26 October, 2010

Mozilla has paid 12-year old Alex Miller $3000 this week, thanking him for finding a critical buffer overflow and memory corruption flaw in the popular Firefox browser. The company pays out prizes to security researchers (or kids) who disclose vulnerabilities. Miller says he became motivated to find a security hole in the browser after Mozilla bumped up its prize from $500 to $3000 ... [ read the full article ]

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ROMaster2
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 00:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's $200 an hour.

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toked
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 01:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sweet!
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KSib
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 02:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is a great story :)
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smitty623
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 08:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Good for him!That's money well earned!
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JoeyMT
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 08:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Smart kid. Now if only Microsoft would pay us for jailbreaking their devices... oh wait...
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Mysttic
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 09:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Damn dude, congrats.
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Dardandec
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 10:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well done to the kid, and congrats to Mozzila for rewarding those that help out with their own personal time.
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 12:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by JoeyMT:
 Smart kid. Now if only Microsoft would pay us for jailbreaking their devices... oh wait...
say what?
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_ 		26. October 2010 @ 14:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thats so awesome what a smart kid
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_ 		27. October 2010 @ 06:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Mozilla is the nicest and most uncorrupted techie firm out there.
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juventini
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_ 		27. October 2010 @ 10:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Great job mate!
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Forza Juve!!
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