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Whew! Apple Will Reportedly Pay $1M To People Who Can Hack An iPhone

<p class&equals;"p1">&num;Roommates&comma; it’s safe to say coming up on &dollar;1 million dollars &lpar;legally of course&rpar; isn’t something that just happens everyday&period; Let alone&comma; coming up on &dollar;1 million for hacking&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">So if you know how to hack a phone&comma; or know someone who can hack a phone&comma; you may want to listen up&excl; Apple is taking their cybersecurity to new heights with a new &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bug bounty” that will offer researchers &lpar;that’s just a nicer way of saying hackers&rpar; up to &dollar;1 million if they can find security hacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">According to &commat;Forbes&comma; the bold move makes this the highest bug bounty offer from any major tech company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">Apparently&comma; Apple isn’t just stopping at iPones&period; They’re also opening up the offer to their popular Mac computers&period; So this is how it would work&comma; the full &dollar;1 Million would go to the researchers who are able to hack the core of iOS with zero clicks required&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">The generous offer could be a power move to respond to reported leaks of iCloud accounts in the past&period; A few months ago Apple was sued after <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;a-new-york-student-sues-apple-for-1-billion-after-facial-recognition-allegedly-led-to-his-false-arrest&sol;">facial recognition software led to an accidental arrest<&sol;a>&period; Though there is no true way to prevent all leaks&comma; Apple is making sure it will be as difficult as it’s ever been&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roommates&comma; are you going to try to shoot for the &dollar;1 million bounty&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p3"><span class&equals;"s1">Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;forbes&period;com&sol;sites&sol;thomasbrewster&sol;2019&sol;08&sol;05&sol;apple-is-giving-out-hacker-friendly-iphones-plots-mac-bug-bounty-sources&sol;&num;3ad1c1984f09"><span class&equals;"s2">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;forbes&period;com&sol;sites&sol;thomasbrewster&sol;2019&sol;08&sol;05&sol;apple-is-giving-out-hacker-friendly-iphones-plots-mac-bug-bounty-sources&sol;&num;3ad1c1984f09<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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