Bug programmes are a key step in our cyber-security

I have previously written about bug bounty programmes – where software vendors will pay white-hat hackers for information about flaws in their software – so security steps, updates and patches can be released before the black-hat hackers can exploit them in the wild.

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Now the EU is setting up a bug bounty programme to cover open source software that it considers economically significant to them.

EU to fund bug bounty programs for LibreOffice, Mastodon, three others – The Record by Recorded Future

Even though we are no longer in the EU, we, and the rest of the world will benefit from this programme.