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The title of this submission: "Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker" The title of the article: "Microsoft Corp pays US$100K bounty to hacking expert who uncov
by lutusp 13y ago
The title of this submission: "Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker"
The title of the article: "Microsoft Corp pays US$100K bounty to hacking expert who uncovered Windows bug that could have been used to launch remote attacks"
To me, this level of editorializing approaches arbitrarily close to lying.
- solox3 13y agoIt is probably not intentional. Had it been intentional: Microsoft pays US$100K to hacking expert to launch remote attacks
- Maven911 13y agoYeah not intentional, wrote it out to have a easier to read title
- kissickas 13y agoMaybe if you're living in a vacuum or it's your first time on HN, but I think most readers here would automatically jump to the conclusion that he uncovered a bug. What we need on HN is LESS editing of link titles, in my opinion.
- zheng 13y agoHow exactly is it lying? Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker. The HN headline just leaves out extra details (what the bounty was for), but doesn't change the meaning at all. Am I missing something?
- sergiotapia 13y agoHow's this: Guy predicts the higgs boson particle. World renowned physicist Foo Bar, accurantly models existance of boson particle. --- See the difference? The title is BS. I expected a guy from Pakistan or somewhere third world finding the bug.
- freehunter 13y agoSo "hacker" to you means Middle East or third world? You do realize you're on a site called "Hacker News", right? There are hacker conventions held all around the Western world. Your mock headline would be more accurate if it said "physicist models higgs boson". Hacker is a perfectly valid job title for a security researcher.
- xerophtye 13y agoIsn't that rather racist? You assume that if the person isn't being called an "expert" then he's from Pakistan? Are you trying to imply that security researchers in Pakistan are third rate? PS: A security researcher from Pakistan has been bagging a lot of Bug Bounties recently. Look up news on Rafay Baloch
- aunty_helen 13y agoWell no, it's not racist, being that Pakistan is a country and not a race... it sure does make your comment emotive though.
- xerophtye 13y agoUnjust Discrimination either way.
- lutusp 13y ago> Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker. No, they paid US$100k to a white-hat, someone who struggles against black-hat hackers. If a headline can't distinguish between white hats and black hats, educated writers normally add some words to clarify their meaning -- and they did. But the submitter omitted those words. Hence, lying.
- yurisagalov 13y agoFWIW, HN won't allow title submissions that are that long
- waylandsmithers 13y agoI think most here would understand "bounty" as "bug bounty", a reward for finding a bug. I personally didn't think any of it until I read your comment, but I get that the title could lead one to believe that the hacker extorted Microsoft.