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Google Rewards Teenager $36,000 For Finding Security Loop In Their System by Itzpetersv: 1:24pm On May 28, 2018
Pereira got his first computer when he was 10, took an initial programming class when he was 11 and then spent years teaching himself different coding languages and techniques. In 2016, Google flew him to its California headquarters after he won a coding contest.His sporadic poking around has finally paid off in a big way: Google just awarded the Uruguayan teenager $36,337 for finding a vulnerability that would have allowed him to make changes to internal company systems.
“I found something almost immediately that was worth $500 and it just felt so amazing,” Pereira said. “So I decided to just keep trying ever since then.”

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Re: Google Rewards Teenager $36,000 For Finding Security Loop In Their System by UNIZIK1stSon(m): 1:25pm On May 28, 2018
Wow!


And there are Security Loops in everything 'secure-able' in Nigeria...


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Re: Google Rewards Teenager $36,000 For Finding Security Loop In Their System by Tribenigeria: 2:44pm On May 28, 2018
Google... the dream of many.
Re: Google Rewards Teenager $36,000 For Finding Security Loop In Their System by CodeTemplar: 7:21pm On May 28, 2018
If only they reward everyone that discovers a loophole, maybe cybercrime will reduce.
Re: Google Rewards Teenager $36,000 For Finding Security Loop In Their System by wane01(m): 10:05pm On May 29, 2018
CodeTemplar:
If only they reward everyone that discovers a loophole, maybe cybercrime will reduce.
Not everyone knows how to pen test for loopholes .. nuh in complex systems as Google

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