Facebook Offers 500$, if found bug in
Oculus Rift
For years, Facebook has maintained a bug bounty program
to reward those who find problems with its platform. Now, it's expanding that
program to Oculus Rift, which it acquired as part of Oculus VR for $2 billion
in March.
The company is offering money for identifying issues in
any major part of Oculus Rift’s code, from the development software to the
website — with a minimum payout of $500 for bugs and software vulnerabilities.
There's no upper limit, so the more critical or inventive the find, the more it
could be worth.
Facebook isn’t reserved in its crowd sourced approach. The
program, which covers a wide range of Facebook’s software properties, has paid
out more than $2 million since its inception in 2011.
Facebook security engineer Neal Poole told The Verge that
it’s focusing first on developer communication tools in the software, but
Facebook won’t rule out bug rewards for the headset itself.
"A lot of the issues that come up with Oculus are
not necessarily in the hardware yet," he said. "Potentially in the
future, if people were to go explore and find issues in the SDK or the
hardware, that is definitely of interest to us."
That hardware, meanwhile, is currently in its second
generation of development, but Facebook has remained mum about when we can
expect the Rift to hit the open market.
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