Track down a security hole on the World Wide Web, and you could earn as much as $5,000.
Sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook, the Internet Bug Bounty challenges you to hack your way into such critical Web platforms as OpenSSL, PHP, Perl, and Apache. One challenge even invites you to hack the Internet itself, meaning finding a bug that affects a wide range of products and users.
"If the public is demonstrably safer as a result of your contribution to internet security, we'd like to be the first to recognize your work and say 'thanks' by sending some cash to you or your favorite non-profit," the site promises.
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