Spotify Hires Hackers for $120,000

16-Oct-19 22:00

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The juxtaposition of hiring hackers to make online service accounts safer has become common practice of many big corporations such as Apple, Paypal and Spotify. This episode focuses on Spotify's battle (we are a music show, after all) against illegal streaming and jailbroken phones as we delve deeper into this lucrative and unconventional career.

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Spotify Hires Hackers for $120,000

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Produced by: Haniff Baharudin, Daryl Ong, Othniel Ting

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Categories: SME, Markets, Film, Music

Tags: the pulse, music news, Spotify, hacking, ethical hacker, cybersecurity,

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