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Knock me over with a feather. This is not how this kind of story almost always ends:
US airline United has rewarded two hackers who spotted security holes in its website with a million free flight miles each.
The flight provider operates a "bug bounty" scheme that rewards hackers for privately disclosing security flaws rather than sharing them online.
It has given the maximum reward of a million flight miles, worth dozens of trips, to two people.
One security expert said the scheme was a big step forward for online security.
"Schemes like this reward hackers for finding and disclosing problems in the right way. That makes the internet safer for all of us," said security consultant Dr Jessica Barker.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by hash14 on Friday July 17 2015, @11:33PM
Then perhaps they can exchange all those miles for, say, an airline bag of 6 peanuts.