The rather serious FaceTime bug widely reported about last week left Apple a little red-faced and one 14-year-old (and his mother) hoping Apple would give him some credit for discovering it. Now it looks like he’s going to get a big payout from Apple’s bug bounty program.
Grant Thompson is the teenager who discovered the bug 10 days before it went public. His mother, Michelle Thompson, set about telling Apple, which resulted in signing up as an Apple developer and submitting a bug report. The report wasn’t taken seriously for some reason, and it wasn’t until his mother shared the communications with Apple via Twitter that news of the bug went viral. Read more…
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