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Prize Conclusion

Posted past times Natalie Silvanovich,

On September 13, 2016 nosotros announced the Prize. It concluded final calendar week amongst no prizes awarded. The purpose of this postal service is to verbalize over what happened too what nosotros learned close hacking competitor design.
Throughout the contest, nosotros did non have whatever valid entries or bugs (everything nosotros received was either spam, or did non remotely resemble a competitor entry equally described inwards the rules). We did hear from approximately teams too individuals who said they were working on the contest, only they did non submit whatever bugs or entries. Based on our discussions amongst them, equally good equally our full general observations during the contest, nosotros suspect that the next factors led to the lack of entries.

Entry Point Difficulty

It is rare for fully remote Android bugs to endure reported, too it is probable that this was a sticking call for for participants. The bulk of Android põrnikas chains laid out amongst approximately user interaction, peculiarly clicking a link, which was non allowed inwards this contest. While this type of põrnikas is non unheard of, it is probable hard to abide by lineament bugs inwards this area. This way that the timeframe of the competitor or prize sum may non stimulate got been adequate to elicit this type of bug.

Competing Contests

The Prize rules were intended to encourage participants to file partial põrnikas chains inwards the Android põrnikas tracker during the contest, fifty-fifty if a total chain was non complete. In designing these rules, nosotros underestimated the impact of other contests on participants’ incentives. The competitor rules allowed for bugs that had already been filed to endure used past times the showtime filer at whatever call for during the contest, too have Android Security Rewards if they were non used equally a purpose of a chain.  We expected these rules to encourage participants to file whatever bugs they constitute immediately, equally alone the showtime finder could usage a specific bug, too multiple reports of the same Android põrnikas are fairly common. Instead, approximately participants chose to salve their bugs for other contests that had lower prize amounts only allowed user interaction, too convey the run a peril that someone else mightiness study them inwards the meantime.

Prize Amount

It’s hard to produce upward one's take away heed the correct prize sum for this type of contest, too the fact that nosotros did non have whatever entries suggests that the prize sum mightiness stimulate got been equally good depression considering the type of bugs required to win this contest.
Overall, this competitor was a learning experience, too nosotros promise to order what we’ve learned to usage inwards Google’s rewards programs too hereafter contests. Stay tuned!
Also, if at that topographic point were whatever aspects of the Prize that affected your participation that nosotros could improve, nosotros would similar to hear from you, either inwards the comments, or at project-zero-prize@google.com.

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