Life As a Bug Hunter 68
An anonymous reader writes "Bug Hunter Aaron Portnoy claims to have earned $60K in 3 months as a bug hunter when he was 19 years old. Pretty impressive. Tighter company budgets and increased pressure to get a product ready by its release date means code isn't checked so thoroughly and bug frequency rises. From the article: 'Mozilla — makers of the Firefox web browser — were first to start a bug bounty programme in 2004. Their top prize is currently $3,000 (£1,800) and they have paid out about $40,000 (£25,000) per year since then. Their top earner is a student in Germany who has bagged more than $30,000 (£18,000) from a series of discoveries.'"
Lite? (Score:4, Insightful)
From the article:
"When we started out it was $1337 which if you write it down spells out 'lite' which is hacker speak for elite. Since then we've increased the top prize to 3133.70 which spells 'elite,'" explained Rukowski.
Seriously? 1337 spells "lite"? Are the authors of this article really that clueless and have that little competent review of their material? 1337 spells "leet" which sounds like "elite" if you don't really pronounce the first letter. Isn't this explained in "Hackers" or some other pop culture movie?