Google Paid $410,000 for Chrome Bugs
Google's bug bounty program, which pays monetary rewards for the discovery of vulnerabilities in Chome, has been a runaway success, according to the company.
Since November 2010, when Goggle began offering cash for bug reports, the company said it paid more than $410,000 to more than 200 individuals who found more than 1100 "legitimate issues" and 730 that qualified for a reward. An additional $19,000 was paid to charities chosen by bug reporters.
The "vast majority" of bug reports were motivated by the potential reward to disclose their discovery. So, even if Google paid more than $400,000, this seems to be a bargain when compared to the potential damage just one bug could have caused.
"It’s not all about money, though," wrote Adam Mein, technical program manager of Google's Security Team in a blog post. "Google has gotten better and stronger as a result of this work. We get more bug reports, which means we get more bug fixes, which means a safer experience for our users."
Google also disclosed that about half of all bugs found were located in software provided by companies that Google had acquired.
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The salary for one good programmer and one person could not find all the bugs found by the numerous programmers/users who found them. I say Google did a smart move. The linux community does the same thing but no one gets paid.
I found 2 roaches and 1 centipede... do I get paid for this? Just kidding..
Its an effective use of man power
Google, you're doing it right
Just makes you wonder if they continue the program -- How many of their programmers will start to intentionally slip bugs into the coding for their "Friends" to find for some extra income !!
In other news, greedy apple wont pay its actual production employees more than a few $ a day.
The salary for one good programmer and one person could not find all the bugs found by the numerous programmers/users who found them. I say Google did a smart move. The linux community does the same thing but no one gets paid.
I have gazillion Linux bugs on my Laptop... None of them fixed yet! I really like the overheating bug! It makes my laptop hot and that's so nice during the long, cold winter nights!
Linux is such a mess! It's unbelievable! I have the feeling that it used to be better 15 years ago when I tried to use it for the first time.
The salary for one good programmer and one person could not find all the bugs found by the numerous programmers/users who found them. I say Google did a smart move. The linux community does the same thing but no one gets paid.
If they pay me that much money I'll be the best programmer ever born... Although they pay good programmers more than that... http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2 [...] entencing/
Meanwhile http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Go [...] O14,32.htm
Ain't that funny... Those who need to go to jail get millions in bonuses!
using chrome right now
Chrome is so nice in that it uses both cores of my CPU whereas firefox just uses 1 core to render all tabs.
You get what you pay for... a damn good browser. The best.
Thats a LOT of bugs.
Haha... MS IE6 users... I mean suckers have downrated me
Google is cool!
google is evil and i still use it
what can i say, it's free.....wait, not really
How much do I get paid for pointing out the spelling 'bug' in your subheadline?
I think it also helps that people (for one reason or another) love Google overall. If Microsoft did the same, it wouldn't be as much of a success because of the same reason.
Google also disclosed that about half of all bugs found were located in software provided by companies that Google had acquired.
My skool'n days are over...but it sounds like half the bugs are therefore caused by 'regular' Google employees.
I wouldn't make the distinction.
But if 95% of the code is written by their hires and only 5% comes from these 'third parties', then noting that the bugs were 50/50 may be pretty significant...
Whereas Apple would probably be like.... "Pay us, and we'll remove the bugs."
Ummm, isn't it up to Foxconn to offer a fair wage and for their employees to accept or decline it? Apple contracts them to build a product, but doesn't run their organization.
Everything I've read seems to indicate that those workers make a pretty good living given the costs of living in those areas