In 2013 Katie Moussouris convinced Microsoft to do what many considered unthinkable. She got them to pay hackers bounties to find problems in their software. Now she's the chief policy officer for a company called HackerOne and her job is to act as an intermediary between big tech companies and hackers who might want to report bugs rather than exploit them or sell the information to potential criminals.
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