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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 2, Informative) by dogvomit on Saturday July 18 2015, @01:41AM
It's not so bad. One great thing about United is that they make it really easy to redeem your miles. They have two tiers of free tickets, a limited availability tier that costs less miles for a flight, and another tier that takes more miles but is nearly always available. So, my wife and son fly free a lot. :-) I got my wife business class to France for 150K miles just this summer. Folks make no mistake, this million-mile bounty that United paid out is really valuable to those receiving it. It's worth thousands of dollars.