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You know that's not Apple but some advertising company, right?
Ad agencies usually present their plans to the client for approval before filming, and present the film to the client for approval before broadcasting. It's not like this got broadcast without Apple's marketing team's sign off.
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I imagine if you find a good bug and aren't on their list, you could bring in someone who is to help out...
... Or Apple could just be like every other bug bounty and pay out regardless of if you're on a white list or not.
It just might be in bitcoin on some .onion site :)
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There was a time if you had issues with hardware, and email to Steve Jobs actually resulted in a customer escalation. I had one of the 15" MBPs that had the Nvidia chip issue, but never experienced that. But had 3 other problems -- all handled (first time for me with Mac hardware). A polite email on a friday night after I did hit my 4th hardware issue, next trip to the apple store was for a "in kind" based on purchas…
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There's so many fanboys though :'(
Are there? Are there really? Because my experience on the internet is a few happy Apple customers and a monstrous tidal wave of anti-Apple hate. And it's a different kind of hate too. Apple fans like to criticize Microsoft and Google, but Apple haters generally attack Apple fans , not Apple itself. It's very disheartening.
But note--people make fun of Apple fans because they are crazy--have you seen the lines when the iPhone 6 came out? I mean seriously. :)
And anyways, 200 grand is an astoundingly high ceiling for bug bounties; highest I've ever seen paid out was a "meager" 20k by Uber, and I thought that was a lot of money for a bug program at the time.
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Apple has slowly been opening up, they used to be such an incredibly secretive company under Jobs there's no way this would've ever happened. Whoops. I just said "Steve Jobs never would've let this happen" line. Oh well. They're letting in third-party keyboards another extensions, small additions to Siri, releasing actual software on android, it's not too surprising that they might be willing to do this now. Been ver…
Just for the sake of discussion: Are they opening up because they need to do this to survive? And they need to do this to survive because their products aren't as good as they used to be and they can't live in an enclosed environment?
I don't think it's a "we have to do this to survive" situation, just a "this seems a good idea" situation.
The question is will they pay $1,000,000 for an exploit that unlocks an iphone? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-idUSKCN0X...
The article already addresses this: While $200,000 is certainly a sizable reward — one of the highest offered in corporate bug bounty programs — it won’t beat the payouts researchers can earn from law enforcement or the black market. The FBI reportedly paid nearly $1 million for the exploit it used to break into an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the individuals involved in the San Bernardino shooting last Decembe…
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Seems pretty simple to me: There was a joke. It was at least tangentially related to the article at hand. Then someone got offended and made the very first irrelevant comment here. He could have just let it slide, but no. More irrelevant comments were made in response to the first irrelevant comment. Yours included. I really don't think people care to read about your opinion on what ruins the site here. Does it reall…
Downvotes don't change anything. Only pointing out problems improves discussion. I am sorry this offends you.