Google has confirmed that a high-severity security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser was found by Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture team. Moreover, the SEAR team was awarded a bug bounty of $15,000 from Google for the discovery and disclosure. As surprising as it may sound to some readers, Google has paid Apple for effectively hacking Chrome security; and that’s a good thing.
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