Facebook Invites Hackers To Attack Its Network 157
An anonymous reader writes "Nearly a year ago, Facebook introduced its bug bounty program, inviting security researchers to poke around the site, discover vulnerabilities that could compromise the integrity or privacy of Facebook user data, and then responsibly disclose them to the company. Still, when the social network's security team received a tip from a researcher about a vulnerability in the company's own network which would allow attackers to eavesdrop on internal communications, they made an unprecedented choice by broadened the scope of the bug bounty program and inviting researchers to search for other holes in the corporate network. Nobody expects malicious attackers to have a change of heart and hand over information about a vulnerability for a few thousand dollars when they could sell the stole information for much more. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that Ryan McGeehan, the manager of Facebook's security-incident response unit, stated that if there's a million-dollar bug, they will pay it out."
Re:Have you ever considered being on topic? (Score:1, Informative)
A PhD in English is certainly not required to ensure good communication. You've fallen victim to the Fallacy of Grey [lesswrong.com] - "not a professional in English teaching" is not the same thing as "unable to communicate well". Strive for perfection in everything you do, as Sir Henry Royce tells us.
Re:Have you ever considered being on topic? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't have a PhD in English, but I don't need one to tell you "broadened" is the wrong tense. The second sentence should read, in part,
instead of the way it is currently written.
This has nothing to do with language "evolving" or grammar police; they made a mistake that breaks one of the syntax rules of the language, and it should be corrected.