NextGov: The House Foreign Affairs Committee forwarded legislation Wednesday that would invite ethical hackers to probe State Department web systems for digital bugs.
The program, known as a bug bounty, would be modeled on similar cash rewards programs at the Pentagon, Army and Air Force. The bill passed on a voice vote.
Bug bounties are common at large technology companies but the U.S. government has been slower to adopt them.
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