Data & Society — Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace

This article provides a brief introduction to the work Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace, by Ryan Ellis and Yuan Stevens. Their report is about the hackers hired to find bugs in programs, how this work is hired and carried out, and critiquing this model. They worry that this current way of finding bugs sacrifices meticulousness for speed. For more, read at the link below.

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