[CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Mon Jan 16 20:12:00 UTC 2012


On 01/16/12 10:34 AM, Bennett Haselton wrote:
> With companies like Facebook and Google offering cash prizes for people
> who can find security holes in their products, has there ever been any
> consideration given to offering cash rewards to people finding security
> exploits in CentOS or in commonly bundled services like Apache?

companies like facebook and google have significant(!!) cash flow.   
centos is a volunteer project.  from where would this prize money come?

you'd do better addressing this question to Redhat Enterprise Linux, 
anyways, since CentOS's goal is to be a near exact copy, bugs and warts 
included.



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