Tracking Bug in Firefox, Alex Miller 12th get USD 26 million
California, GooScript - Smart also this young teen. At the age of 12 years stepped on, he managed to track bugs (gap) in the Firefox browser so that rewarded the money of USD 3,000 or approximately USD 26 million as the makers of Mozilla Firefox.
What achievements? Quoted from PC Mag, Tuesday (10/26/2010), teenager named Alex Miller from California was able to find a bug related to the issue of buffer overflow and memory corruption in Firefox.
Just so you know, Alex had to spend 90 minutes per day for 10 days to track down the bug in question. He does have a fairly competent skills in the field of programming.
The bug in question and then reported on the part of Mozilla. Since July, Mozilla is offering money to those who managed to find a flaw in the Mozilla product.
Many were doubtful that Alex's scores, especially their peers. But after he showed a check from Mozilla, they just believe. Some prize money donated to social institutions and to buy Christmas presents. The rest he had a tube in the bank.
"Only a few people who contribute in this area. This field is very technical," says Brandon Stone, Security Program Manager Mozilla.
Thus, what Alex was not arbitrary. He was given the award money is worth quite a lot of Mozilla.
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