PAY-OFF TIME FOR BUG-BUSTERS, NETSCAPE PLEDGES "DOGFIGHT"

Ian Goldberg iagoldbe at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Dec 18 14:51:41 PST 1995


In article <199512151800.KAA11304 at jobe.shell.portal.com>,
 <anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Michael Coates wrote:
>
>> PAY-OFF TIME FOR BUG-BUSTERS, NETSCAPE PLEDGES "DOGFIGHT"
>> Netscape Communications has awarded two software sleuths $1,000 each for
>> finding security gaps in its Netscape Navigator 2.0 software.  The company
>> also awarded gifts to 50 other contestants in its "Bugs Bounty" program for
>> identifying non-security problems.  (Wall Street Journal 11 Dec 95 B7)
>
>Can anyone tell me whether Ian Goldberg and David Wagner got their $25,000
>from Netscape for finding the HUGE security flaws in Netscape's existing 
>product line??
>
>I can't remember whether they got anything or not ...

That would be no (well, except for the nifty T-shirt from Sameer; Thanks!).

   - Ian "There's a reason people talk about `starving grad students'..."






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