Digital Planet

By BBC World Service

Google bug bounty hunters

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Published November 26, 2019 3:13pm

Google’s offering up to $1.5m to anyone who can identify bugs in its new chip for Android smartphones. This is a especially high reward but Google’s just one of a host of big well-known companies running bug hunting programmes. But is this the best way for big business to protect its new tech?

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