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December 13, 2018
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| Data He couldn't understand why a lot of data had been leaked so easily. He was reading a newspaper article, which read that 50 million customers' information of one of the IT giants had been exposed for years. Some information might have been leaked, although the company denied it. He was completely an amateur about computers, but he could guess that one of the biggest concerns of IT companies was their customers' trust. Because if one company got bad reputation, customers could easily change the service to another service by one click, literally. When we register for services on the web, like e-mail services, chat services and other communication services, as well as photo share services, shopping sites, we need to fill in the forms, which require our name, sex, age, email address, sometimes one's physical address and bank account information. The company had a lot of money and many skillful engineers. They should have been very careful. He read this was probably because of bugs. Every year, he would hear this type of things: 'The stock market shut down suddenly because of its software bugs.' 'The government's site was attacked by hackers because of a security hole from its software bugs.' 'The game company postponed its new game release because they found bugs in it.' Software was written by engineers. The  part written unsuitably is called a 'bug', and bugs sometimes make the software operation wrong. His knowledge was up to this. He searched for bugs on the web and he found a website that summarized bugs into two things: One: There is no software that doesn't have any bugs. Two: There is no method that proves that the software doesn't have any bugs. Another website he read stated: 'If the company tried to remove all bugs completely, it would take a huge amount of time and could cost a lot; in addition, no deadlines would be met in time. So makers normally leave some possibilities that bugs are in the software. For example, if it is an online banking system, once in a certain amount of years the system would go down. Even at the customers' inconvenience and the recovery cost, it would still less cost than making a perfect software from the beginning. "But if there are bugs in software usually, would hackers use them and do bad things?" Maybe some bad people or countries would think to use bugs to attack other countries' government sites or to get money from banks directly. He found an interesting website that introduced about good hackers who would find bugs to help. 'HackerOne published its 2018 Hacker Report, which examined the geography, demographics, experience, tools used and motivations of nearly 2,000 bug bounty hackers across 100 countries.' "2,000 hackers!" he was amazed. Bounty means 'award' so they were like gunmen of Western movies. 'HackerOne found that on average, top earning ethical hackers make up to 2.7 times the median salary of a software engineer in their respective home countries. Also, hackers in India are making as much as 16 times the median. And yet, the new data finds that overall hackers are less motivated by monetary gain, dropping from their first priority to their fourth since 2016 ...' "Ethical hackers!" he was amazed. He didn't know about them. He found another website which mentioned about a bug hunter: A Taiwanese guy used Apple Pay's bugs, and purchased 500 new i-phones for about 4 cents. However, he canceled the purchase soon afterwards. The web mentioned that maybe the company had ignored his warning about the bugs so he had to demonstrate it. "Maybe companies should be more appreciative of these ethical hackers," he thought. |
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*expose :さらす
*register :登録する
*physical address :実際の住所
*demographics :人口統計値
*bounty :賞金、報奨金
*ethical :道徳的
*median :中間の
*overall :全般的
*appreciative :好意的な、感謝の