Amaya Toman A Google researcher said last week that Apple should send nearly $2,5 million to charity. The reason is the huge number of bugs in the iOS operating system that he discovered and reported to the apple company.
Ian Beer is one of the members of Google's Project Zero team, which focuses on uncovering security flaws in other companies' software. Once a bug is discovered, the company in question is then given ninety days to fix it - before the software is released to the public. The goal of the aforementioned initiative is to make the entire Internet safer. He wants to achieve this by pressuring companies to fix bugs in their software.
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Apple launched its own bug bounty program some time ago. Under it, security researchers are paid to uncover all sorts of bugs in its operating systems. Unlike other programs of a similar focus, however, the apple bug bounty program only works by special invitation. If Ian Beer had received such an invitation and had officially participated in the program, then he would have been entitled to a monetary reward of $1,23 million for the number of errors he discovered and reported. If he were to allow Apple to donate his salary to charity, the amount would rise to $2,45 million. Beer said he made this public statement because Apple is doing a poor job of fixing bugs in its software.
Apple launched its security bug bounty program two years ago, with the maximum offer for a found vulnerability being $200. But a year later, the program began to slowly decline - the reason was the low amounts that Apple paid researchers. They prefer to report vulnerabilities to governments or companies that deal with hacking Apple devices. One of the similarly focused startups, for example, offered three million dollars for revealing a so-called zero-day bug in iOS and macOS.
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Source: businessinsider
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