Putting a Dollar Sign on Chrome Confidence -- Redmondmag.com

At the upcoming CanSecWest conference, hackers will be focused on the benjamins. Those that can crack the Google Chrome browser will walk away with 20,000 Google-supplied dollars, enough to buy a mid-level car or pay for six months at a private university.

Last year conference attendees also tried to bring Chrome to its knees -- to no avail. Maybe Google hopes to make it a double.

Another $105,000 will also be paid if various other bits of software can be broken, including Safari, IE, FireFox and a host of mobile OSes.

Good luck to all participants, though failing to crack these systems would make me feel better about their security.

Posted by Doug Barney on 02/07/2011 at 1:18 PM

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