The Linux Foundation, together with Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science, is now midway through a census effort to identify the most critical and widely deployed open-source software in use, with the goal of giving developers the funds, training, and tools to protect it. Separately, Microsoft and Facebook sponsor an internet-wide bug bounty program to pay hackers cash for bugs they turn over in widely used technology. GitHub, the platform for programmers—that is now part of Microsoft—also offers bounties for open-source bugs, and has given the hackers who turn over these bugs legal safe
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