{"id":1015,"date":"2014-12-11T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2014-12-11T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:29:23","slug":"silicon-valley-companies-paying-hackers-bounties-to-find-their-flaws-before-crooks-do-san-jose-mercury-news-11-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/12\/11\/silicon-valley-companies-paying-hackers-bounties-to-find-their-flaws-before-crooks-do-san-jose-mercury-news-11-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley companies paying hackers &#8216;bounties&#8217; to find their flaws before crooks do &#8211; San Jose Mercury News, 11 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The actions of world governments to buy these things has made it more likely that hackers will sell vulnerabilities and we will all remain vulnerable,&#8221; said Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard Law School&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.<\/p>\n<p>Discovering such weaknesses isn&#8217;t easy, even for companies that design software. That&#8217;s largely because &#8220;when computer science majors in schools are taught code, they are not taught about security vulnerabilities,&#8221; said Lillian Ablon, who co-authored the Rand study.<\/p>\n<p>Until that changes, many experts believe, hiring hackers to find the flaws makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_27111020\/silicon-valley-companies-paying-hackers-bounties-find-their?source=infinite\">Silicon Valley companies paying hackers &#8216;bounties&#8217; to find their flaws before crooks do &#8211; San Jose Mercury News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The actions of world governments to buy these things has made it more likely that hackers will sell vulnerabilities and we will all remain vulnerable,&#8221; said Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard Law School&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/12\/11\/silicon-valley-companies-paying-hackers-bounties-to-find-their-flaws-before-crooks-do-san-jose-mercury-news-11-december-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}