The Original Bug Bounty: Alfred Hobbs and the Great Lock Controversy of 1851
Alfred Hobbs: The OG bug bounty hunter who cracked England’s ‘unpick-able’ locks. His breaker mindset exposed flaws, sparked innovation, and proved no system is perfect.
Vulnerability annihilation since 1851
"What Hobbs had in mind was not the usual cajoling of a provincial bank into an upgrade, but exposing weaknesses in the British Empire itself by revealing the faults of one of Day and Newell’s competitors."
Information Asymmetry and the 1950s Nuclear Bounty
Props to Matt Ploessel for calling out this one... I'd not heard of a bounty around nuclear weapons until today.
What Is a Board
The word “corporation” was originally a shipping term – A group of people would pool their resources to fund and form
Skype Controls 12% of All International Calls
This is a repost from http://www.strategyeye.com/articles/digitalmedia/id/24649416.
Interesting to watch this progress – the take-up
