Listen: Apple Pays Hacker Record Amount
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While hackers have been described in numerous ways, they\\u2019re not always terrorists, thieves, criminals or heartless bastards, as one colleague refers to them.
For example, there\\u2019s Ryan Pickren. He\\u2019s a cybersecurity Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech who was recently paid over $100,000 by Apple after discovering and reporting a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to gain access to cameras and web browsers on Mac PCs.
According to Pickren, and as reported by Digital Trends, the amount is the highest reward Apple has ever doled out to a hacker.\\xa0
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