While riding my motorcycle to DefCon and Black Hat, I visualized the security industry’s high-water mark—that place, Hunter S. Thompson wrote, “where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
The longtime world chess champion and Putin foe, now a human rights activist, says we should be fostering a deepening human-computer partnership rather than trying to fight the inevitable.
While its top prize of $200,000 is a far cry from what hackers can earn for unpatched bugs on the black market, the security community is largely applauding the tech titan’s move.
