The 2016 Pwnie Nominee For Epic Achievement

Department of Defence Bug Bounty

Credit: Katie Moussouris

After she moved mountains in order to make Microsoft launch their first security researcher amnesty, BlueHat Prize, and bug bounty programs, she really didn’t leave herself much room to top that. Somehow she did, however, by somehow convincing the US DoD to let randos on the Internet hack them and then pay them for the privilege. Remember when you’d go to jail for hacking the Pentagon? The now is weird, but this is one example of a good way.

Department of Defence Bug Bounty