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Google dares hackers to hack Chrome OS - and will pay $2M
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Google dares hackers to hack Chrome OS - and will pay $2.71828 million as reward


Rarely do you find a company that puts itself in the crosshairs of hackers, especially when you know there are some *very* talented ones out there (remember Anonymous?). In a time where companies try to stay out of the limelight, Google is doing the exact opposite - and for the fourth time, in fact.
Google is offering $2.71828 million for hackers who manage to hack into Chrome OS, in their annual security competition event, Google Pwnium. The number itself is a geek joke, actually - it's the mathematical constant 'e', which programmers use when writing algorithms. Translated into local numbers, that's RM9million / SGD3.5 million / P123 million.

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Oh wow this is gonna be funny to see.
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Next headline:
Google sues hacker $2.7 million for hacking OS.
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That's funny, I remember a guy called Pinkie Pie or something like that hacked chrome a while back :/ but dont quote me on that.
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Im pretty sure most companies pay people in there company to try hack there on software in order to patch up there security nothing out of the ordinary here really
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This was posted not to long ago, but Google didn't offer that big of a price at first.
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Haha i'm going to laugh when someone actually does, and they take action against them
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It'll happen & then Google will get mad.
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Pawzy wrote It'll happen & then Google will get mad.


I honestly don't see anyone hacking it, but if someone does, I don't see Google getting angry. I see them asking how the person did it and them fixing it and making harder to hack.

I still think they would give the person 2 Million dollars, because that's pocket change to Google.
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JTAGUK wrote Im pretty sure most companies pay people in there company to try hack there on software in order to patch up there security nothing out of the ordinary here really


Nothing out of the ordinary except to 2.7 Million Dollar Reward...
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