There will always be some hackers/crackers who will stay underground to hopefully profit from unknown exploits. Events like this encourage these people to share

There will always be some hackers/crackers who will stay underground to hopefully profit from unknown exploits. Events like this encourage these people to share their finding and earn money (and street creed) from it. Did you know that Google pays people to find exploits for Chrome? http://blog.chromium.org/2010/01/encouraging-more-chromium-security.html http://blog.chromium.org/2010/01/encouraging-more-chromium-s...