I was just looking through a few media sources, trying to find something interesting to blog about when i found this article on CNN. http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/10/technology/security/google-chrome-hacker-prize/index.html. Google offered $60,000 to any hacker who could find security issues with their Google Chrome browser. Its interesting to see a company as established as Google, relying on hackers to try out their security systems, but i guess it worked because one hacker actually found problems with the browser and  received the $60,000 prize. I find it very interesting they just host a hacking competition for anyone that's able to hack, in order to find out problems with their servers. The hacker that won the prize is a teenage boy that goes by the online name "Pinkie Pie", and this wasn't even the first time he has taken Google's prize money. In 2010, him and another hacker took home another sum of money for finding holes in the Chrome browser back then. I think Google should just put him on their payroll, then they wouldn't have to hold any more of these competitions.

David