[PCWorld]

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[Kelupa44]

So, if someone is "hacking" a system to say and you ask, the can at least say they are getting paid to do it?

Outside this though to say if you design something, you can learn about a thousand things wrong with it or just one for a price.

But to say all is well , on the idea of just say being like well ya know, the is services "open" for use, is anyones guess.

But to legitimize the illegit, so that there is not such an "unease" of say interest is about one thing probably not either talked of or thought of much probably for what that would be.

Heard desperate times calling for desperate measures, but sometimes a company "layoff" explains it so much better. Or just not hiring, What can you do??

Rather either then, who knows. But least of something there is something. But something of say exploits for exploits is anyones guess. But least of them though just just be for say one exploit, yes?

[TheOldTopkick]

It may be a good idea to do this sort of thing, but I wish you would call it by some other name. Hackers raise my hackles.

[TheOldTopkick]

In the past few years I have given more of my attention to the subject of hacking than ever before. Hacking has raised its ugly and malevolent head so many times that companies are paying for him to go away. The old adage about paying the Danegelt still holds true. As I read the comments of some, I feel that hacking must be so simple that it can be handled by any 10-year old. Other commenters make me feel as if it is an esoteric art that cam be mastered by only a very few. If the former is true, then by tomorrow morning I am sure that I will have tenative offers for big bucks from each of the leading manufacturers of software. If the later is true, then hacking didn't happen. I don't know which extreme is the most ridiculous. Bribery, whether only a smile or lots of cash has changed many things. So has force and violence. Personally I prefer cash. In the long run I think we should pay them and forget the Danegelt.

[johnnydollar2]

YOU increase the Rewards and get the hackers buddies to squeal on them. There is no honor among thieves as we know. MS has the right idea with the 250K.