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Story: Testing times for open source

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Posted by: Franki (Friday 22 April 2005, 2:54 PM)

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What about the Mozilla bug bounty program as an example of making use of the source code being open to find bugs.

Mozilla pays people 500 USD for any security bug found. And it is working as many of the bugs patched in the last few updates of firefox were found by bug bounty winners.

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Franki

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