Epic Games floats $1m bounty to ID source of 'commercial smear' claiming Houseparty chat app has been hacked

Group video chat app Houseparty has offered a $1m bounty to identify what it claims is an organised campaign to falsely depict it as a hackers' backdoor. Announced at 4am UTC on the firm's Twitter account, the million-dollar bounty is being offered to "the first individual to provide proof of such a campaign," with Epic Games …

[Jason Bloomberg]

Rags to Riches

the million-dollar bounty is being offered to "the first individual to provide proof of such a campaign

I'm tempted to start one, prove it exists, then claim my bounty.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Rags to Riches

They are now 100% positive the Houseparty chat app has been hacked by hackers.

[Pascal Monett]

"livestream themselves drunkenly trying out filters that turn their fizzogs into cartoon dogs"

I would rant about how utterly useless such an app is, but then I realize that, if that's what it takes to keep people to respect social distancing and minimize the strain on our hospitals, well then carry on ! And make another one with manga face filters or something !

Just keep them occupied, for Pete's sake.

Well, for everyone's sake, really.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "livestream themselves drunkenly trying out filters that turn their fizzogs into cartoon dogs"

Every other member of my extended family seems to be on some sort of covid holiday at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I love working from home, I love still having a job, but its slightly tedious to get messages like "Why didn't you join our Houseparty bookclub yesterday afternoon?", or the missus wanting to go for a 2hr "isolation walk" around the park during the day.

If anything, I've got more work now - the managers gotta manage, so we've got way more "catch up" VCs - and none of my deadlines have changed...

[YetAnotherJoeBlow]

Thanks

Thanks for the link to the pdf - I have never seen it before.