Since I've been known to complain about the waste of tax dollars I feel it is only fair to give the government an atta boy when one is due. The Department of Defense appealed to white-hat hackers to participate in a "bug bounty" in order to identify potential weaknesses in the security of the Pentagon's five public websites. An 18 year old recent high school graduate identified the most weak areas out of the 1,400 hackers who participated. 138 total faults with the sites were found. The cost of the bounty hunt was $150,000 compared to the over 1 million dollars the same results would have cost from a private firm.
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