Another Win For Crowdsourcing - 12-Year-Old Finds Critical Firefox Flaw, Earns $3,000 Bounty

We are obviously big fans of crowdsourcing here at Idea Bounty and it has always given us joy to know what one of the worlds top browsers (FireFox) is a product of crowdsourcing itself. Apart from the code for FireFox being open and freely available to anyone who wishes to download it, the browser also crowdsource's for bugs that might exist in the code. Something it is only able to do infact because the code is open. Anyway last week a 12-year-old named Alex Miller discovered and reported a critical buffer overflow and memory corruption vulnerability (what ever that means) in the browser and reported it to Mozilla who is the foundation in control of the whole thing. 

Alex picked up a tidy $3,000 for something which by his estimation took him "90 minutes a day for about 10 days until I spotted the flaw in the code"  Apparently Alex was motivated to look for bugs as a self confessed "FireFox loyalist" and obviously the money on offer. Pretty cool for a 12-year-old and even cooler for crowdsourcing im sure you will agree.