Bug bounties: the good and the bad of computer security

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to founder and CEO of Luta Security Katie Moussouris. Moussouris has a long history in computer security, working at Microsoft and the Department of Defense creating their first bug bounty programs to incentivize catching and reporting security bugs and vulnerabilities in software systems. Nilay and Katie discuss the good and bad of bug bounties, encryption dilemmas with consumer devices, voting security in elections, and overall how we keep our software and networks secure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:51.6	What bug bounty programs are good for? What they're not good for? What they incentivize?
1:55.3	And what blind spots they create? We talked a lot about that. We talked a lot about encryption on
1:59.6	devices. The government's desire to break encryption on things like the iPhone. Why that's a bad idea.
2:04.9	Obviously, Katie had a lot of thoughts about that. And we talked a little bit about the pandemic
2:08.4	and election security. Just a fascinating conversation, an enormously important perspective on how we
2:14.0	keep our devices in our network secure. Check it out. Katie Musteris, founder and CEO of Luta Security.
2:22.0	Katie Musteris, you're the founder and CEO of Luta Security. Welcome to the first guest.
2:25.6	Thank you so much for having me. We really appreciate it.
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