Tech colossus Apple is offering as much as $1 million to people who can hack into its new Private Cloud Compute system, meant to handle artificial intelligence requests too intensive for a personal device.
The company promises that PCC will keep user request data safe by deleting it once an AI request is finished, barring even Apple itself from accessing it.
In order to put money where its proverbial mouth is, Apple will pay $1 million to security researchers who can remotely run code on PCC without authorization and $250,000 to those who can remotely access request data or user information outside certain PCC parameters.
“Because we care deeply about any compromise to user privacy or security, we will consider any security issue that has a significant impact to PCC for an Apple Security Bounty reward, even if it doesn’t match a published category. We’ll evaluate every report according to the quality of what’s presented, the proof of what can be exploited, and the impact to users,” Apple said in a blog post Thursday.
• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.
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