Microsoft Announces The Windows Bounty Program

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In a brief Blog post today, Microsoft has announced the "Windows Bounty Program." Microsoft have been offering bug bounties since 2012, but are now extending the program to all features of the Windows Insider Preview including Windows Defender Application Guard, and Edge.

I was not aware of this program until today. While I have zero knowledge in coding, it sounds like a great way to get many eyes on a product. And payouts from $500 to $250,000 is one heck of an incentive to go looking for bugs.

In the spirit of maintaining a high security bar in Windows, we’re launching the Windows Bounty Program on July 26, 2017. This will include all features of the Windows Insider Preview in addition to focus areas in Hyper-V, Mitigation bypass, Windows Defender Application Guard, and Microsoft Edge. We’re also bumping up the pay-out range for the Hyper-V Bounty Program.
 
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The street value of a zero day MS exploit exceeds what they are offering...
 
Every time I have reported a glaring bug in Windows, MS just comes back saying that "it is working as designed".

Oh yeah, having something where you can create folders and then are completely unable to delete them short of wiping the drive (in a specific scenario) is "working as designed"... :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
kju1 said:
The street value of a zero day MS exploit exceeds what they are offering...
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But you can double dip, sell a bug anonymously on the black market, wait a month or 2 then report it to MS.
 
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cyclone3d said:
Every time I have reported a glaring bug in Windows, MS just comes back saying that "it is working as designed".

Oh yeah, having something where you can create folders and then are completely unable to delete them short of wiping the drive (in a specific scenario) is "working as designed"... :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Accidently created a folder called "Program " in C:\ eh? That's my favourite. The OS bitches about it on every boot but then refuses to delete it.
 
Todd Walter said:
Accidently created a folder called "Program " in C:\ eh? That's my favourite. The OS bitches about it on every boot but then refuses to delete it.
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That is full of fail, but not what I was referring to.

It has to do with the ability to change the location of your library folders.

Try making it on C:\whatever name you want, and then move it to a folder under that folder that it made... You then can't rid of either. But it will let you make as many sub-folders as you want and move the library to it.. and then you have this huge folder structure that Windows will not let you delete even if you move the library back to the original default location.

Working as designed... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. :rolleyes:

I'm guessing you could move the library to whatever drive/folder you want and the same thing would happen. I just never tried as it made me irritated enough to try to report it and then be told that it was working as designed. IDIOTS!!!!
 
cyclone3d said:
That is full of fail, but not what I was referring to.

It has to do with the ability to change the location of your library folders.

Try making it on C:\whatever name you want, and then move it to a folder under that folder that it made... You then can't rid of either. But it will let you make as many sub-folders as you want and move the library to it.. and then you have this huge folder structure that Windows will not let you delete even if you move the library back to the original default location.

Working as designed... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. :rolleyes:

I'm guessing you could move the library to whatever drive/folder you want and the same thing would happen. I just never tried as it made me irritated enough to try to report it and then be told that it was working as designed. IDIOTS!!!!
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Jesus Christ. That's just ridiculous. That's like the old path depth error from ages ago. Only M$. :rolleyes:
 
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