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Mozilla pays 12-year-old $3000 for finding critical vulnerability in Firefox

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Alex Miller, a 12-year-old from San Jose, California, just cashed a $3000 check for finding a buffer overflow bug in ‘document.write’.

The bug, which was was one the major security vulnerabilities fixed in this week’s releases of Firefox 3.6.11 and 3.5.14, was discovered by Alex after spending ‘about 90 minutes each day for 10 days’. In other words, he pored through code for 15 hours and made $3000, or $200 per hour. Not bad for a 12-year-old!

If you want to get in on the bug bounty hunting action — because let’s face it, if a kid can find a bug in 15 hours, an adult could do it much faster — just head on over to Mozilla Developer Central. Check out the Firefox source and start looking!

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