Rest of the Day: 1Password Offering $ 100,000 Bug Bounty
If you can crack the 1Password encryption, you can win a prize of $ 100,000. It sounds a bit like Willy Wonka, but rewarding mistakes is a common practice among large software developers.
As you probably know, 1Password is a popular password manager that people use to store the keys to all of their accounts, so security is key. That’s why they are offering $ 100,000 via Bugcrowd if you can capture the “unencrypted bad poetry flag.” That is, if you can compromise their safety and hack the system . [The Next Web]
In other news, Twitch will soon have its own desktop app. They’re basically rebranding Curse , a gaming chat app that Twitch acquired last year that supports video calling, screen sharing, and all the features you’d expect from a solid chat platform. It will be available on March 16th.
The Viber chat app adds new ways to keep your messages safe from prying eyes. Regular messages in Viber already have the ability to self-destruct after a certain amount of time, but their new “secret chats” also prevent you from forwarding them and prevent you from taking screenshots on Android (or notifying you when someone takes a screenshot on iOS). The Verge reports that new features are expected to arrive next week. [The Verge]
Visual Pinterest search is now available to everyone. You can take a photo of something that catches your eye – like cool clothes, or maybe a picture that grabs your attention – and Pinterest will look for similar things. In other words, it’s like Shazam for objects. In a sense, the eyeballs are also Shazams for objects. [Venture Beat]